Anupriya Dhonchak is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s London office. Her practice focuses on international arbitration and commercial litigation. Prior to joining the firm, Anupriya trained at a leading global law firm in London, where she worked across international arbitration, commercial litigation, and competition disputes. Her experience spans investor-state dispute resolution and international commercial arbitrations under the ICC and SIAC rules, group litigation before the English High Court, and class action proceedings before the Competition Appeal Tribunal, including matters successfully appealed to the UK Supreme Court.
Beyond private practice, Anupriya has served as a Judicial Assistant to the Supreme Court of India (to Justice D.Y. Chandrachud), and the Supreme Court of Namibia (to Chief Justice Peter Shivute). Her Fellowship to the Supreme Court of Namibia was fully funded by the Oxford Faculty of Law, at the end of which she was honorarily appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador of the Supreme Court of Namibia.
She read for the BCL and the MPhil in Law at the University of Oxford on the Rhodes Scholarship. Her academic writings have been published by Edward Elgar and Bloomsbury Hart. She has presented her research at conferences in Oxford, Virginia, Lisbon, Wisconsin, Salzburg, London, Hyderabad, and Delhi.
- University of Oxford, Balliol College
Rhodes Scholar (India and Balliol), 2021
(M.Phil, Law, 2023)
(Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL), 2022)- Monckton Chambers Prize:
- Best performance in Competition Law
- Law Faculty Prize:
- Best performance in Comparative Copyright
- Monckton Chambers Prize:
- National Law University, Delhi
(B.A. LL.B, honors, First Class with Distinction, 2021)- Vice Chancellor’s Gold Medal
- Bar Council of India
- Admitted in India only (practicing under the direct supervision of a member of The Bar of England and Wales).
- Hindi
- Punjabi
- Goodwill Ambassador of the Supreme Court of Namibia (2023)
- IPKat ‘IP Law Book of the Year Award’ 2023 — co-authored a chapter in the Research Handbook on Moral Rights and Intellectual Property (Edward Elgar, 2023)
- Book Chapter, ‘Image Rights in India: The Impropriety of a Proprietary Foundation?’ in Asia-Pacific Property Law (Hart Publishing, forthcoming 2026).
- University of Oxford (Reuben College): ‘Generative AI and Competition Regulation in the UK and the EU’, delivered for Equitech Scholars Oxford in collaboration with the Rhodes Trust (2025).
- WIPO-NLU Delhi Joint Masters’ Programme: Invited lecturer on the LLM in Intellectual Property (2025).
- Invited Legal expert, ‘Copy vs Copyright: Whose content is it?’ The Economic Times, The Morning Brief (Podcast) (2023).
- Panellist, ‘Surviving Violence: Everyday Resilience & Gender Justice,’ University of Oxford (2023), contributed to the British Academy funded project concerning domestic violence responses across jurisdictions; co-authored the Conference Report published by Oxford University and QMUL.
- Book Chapter, Against Integrity: Moral Rights, Creative Agency & Attribution’ in Research Handbook on Moral Rights & IP (Edward Elgar Publishing 2023).
- Can User Rights u/s. 52 of the Indian Copyright Act be Contractually Waived? NALSAR Student Law Review (2019), cited in ‘Right to Research & Copyright Law’ in NYU Journal of IP & Entertainment Law.
- Relevance of Common Ownership in Competition Analysis in India, NLS Business Law Review 2020.
- Standard of Consent in Rape Law in India, Berkeley Journal of Gender Law & Justice (2019).
- Presented research at conferences in Oxford, Hong Kong, Virginia, Lisbon, Wisconsin, Salzburg, London, Hyderabad and Delhi.