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📅 Years active: 2016 to 2016
Mishi Choudhary is working with SFLC following the completion of her fellowship during which she earned her LLM from Columbia Law School and was a Stone Scholar. Prior to joining forces with SFLC in 2006, she practiced as a High Court and Supreme Court litigator in New Delhi.
At SFLC, Mishi is the primary legal representative of many of the world's most significant free software developers and non-profit distributors, including Debian, the Apache Software Foundation, and OpenSSL.
In 2010, she founded SFLC.in, since which time she has divided her time between New York and New Delhi. Under her direction, SFLC.in has become the premier non-profit organization representing the rights of Internet users and free software developers in India. She was one of the lead counsels in the Supreme Court of India's landmark Shreya Singhal v. Union of India judgment on internet free speech. She is a core volunteer with the SaveTheInternet.in Net Neutrality coalition that worked on the Network Neutrality campaign in India. SFLC.in recently won a victory for Software Patents and FOSS at the Indian Patent office as well. She consults regularly with the Government of India on issues of internet freedom, Free and Open Source Software, Software Patents, Privacy and Network Neutrality.
As of 2015, Mishi is the only lawyer in the world simultaneously to appear on briefs in the US and Indian Supreme Courts in the same Term. She consults with and advises established businesses and startups using free software in their products and service offerings in the US, Europe, India, China and Korea. In 2015 she was named one of the Asia Society's 21 young leaders building Asia's future.
In addition to an LLM, she has an LLB degree and a bachelors degree in political science from the University of Delhi. Mishi is a member of the Bar Council of Delhi, licensed to appear before the Supreme Court of India, all the State High Courts in India, in the State of New York, and before the Southern District of New York.
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