Lakshmi Gopal

Lakshmi Gopal is Principal Attorney at Muciri Law PLLC, where her work focuses on serving individuals marginalized by technology—especially with respect to access to education and access to justice.

Before starting her practice, from 2018 to 2020, Lakshmi taught law as a lecturer and senior researcher at the Faculty of Law and Business at the University of Halle-Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. She taught US Constitutional Law and US Business Law and was the coach of the University’s World Trade Organization and Foreign Direct Investment Moot Court teams. While in Germany, she worked as an in-house lawyer for Babbel, a German language-learning technology company. She also interned in the Cabinet of Judge Tamara Perišin at the General Court of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg.

Lakshmi holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was awarded the S. Anthony Benton Memorial Award for scholastic excellence in the fields of constitutional and international law. At law school, Lakshmi was Managing Editor Online with the Michigan Journal of International Law and Vice-President of the American Constitution Society. Lakshmi holds a master’s degree from Columbia’s Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies. She holds a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts from Columbia, graduating magna cum laude with departmental honors. She holds a bachelor’s degree with merit in Philosophy (Honors) from King’s College, London.