Preeti Sampat is an anthropologist working on rights to land and resources in relation to infrastructure creation and urbanisation in India. Her doctoral work is a legal ethnography of the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 that traces the law's policy genesis and evolution at the national level, and failure in implementation in Goa. Her current research examines emergent land and resource struggles along the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor. Preeti currently teaches at the Department of Sociology in the Delhi School of Economics.