SpicyIP TV: The Summer School Edn - 01 Murali Neelakantan on A Career in Law, and Legal Education

The SpicyIP Podcast took the opportunity to sit with our distinguished faculty and guest speakers at the SpicyIP Summer School 2025 to launch our first set of interviews! In this episode (01), Sonisha Srinivasan speaks to Mr Murali Neelakantan (bio below) about his career journey and his perspective on legal education in India.. He explains how moving to Cipla changed his views on healthcare access and affordability and set him on his path for the last 12 years. He also highlights the critical need for Indian legal education to move beyond rote learning, and to encourage deep, critical engagement with real world issues, connecting legal education to societal challenges as well as the ability to question and understand better. About Murali Neelakantan: Murali Neelakantan is the Principal Lawyer at Amicus, a dual-qualified lawyer (English solicitor and Indian advocate), who brings extensive experience from roles as Global General Counsel at Cipla and Senior Partner at Khaitan & Co. Previously, he served as a Partner at Arnold & Porter and Ashurst in London. He has held Board positions at Glenmark Pharmaceuticals and TTK Prestige Ltd. A prolific writer, he has penned incisive op-eds on healthcare for BloombergQuint, NDTV Profit, The Hindu, The Wire, Indian Express, Moneycontrol, and Scroll. A 1996 graduate of the NLSIU, Bangalore, he co-edited “An Idea of a Law School- Ideas from The Law School” and published in NLSIR, NLSBLR, Indian Public Policy Review, and The Lancet Regional Health – South East Asia. Recognized as an expert, he has been featured in the Financial Times, British Medical Journal, and podcasts like “The Firm, ” “Shortcast over Coffee,” and “The Seen and The Unseen. ------------------- Visit SpicyIP.com for the latest insights on the Indian IP ecosystem ------------------- Connect with us on our socials: https://x.com/spicyip https://www.linkedin.com/company/spicyip/ https://www.instagram.com/spicyipblog/ https://www.youtube.com/@SpicyIPTV More on the SpicyIP Summer School available here: https://spicyip.com/2025/07/event-report-of-the-inaugural-spicyip-summer-school.html https://www.instagram.com/spicyipacademy/ Credits: Sonisha Srinivasan: Host, Researcher, Editor Swaraj Paul Barooah: Producer, Researcher, Editor Praharsh Gour, Md Sabeeh Ahmad: Camera, Mic, Set Tanishka Goswami, Anjali Tripathi, Athreya Bhat: Graphics & Media Praharsh Gour, Yogesh Byadwal, Bharathwaj Ramakrishnan: Research & General Setup