Amitpal Singh

Amitpal Singh's research addresses foundational questions in private law, with a focus on tort and property. Singh is completing an S.J.D. at Harvard Law School, where his dissertation examines the relationship between tortious wrongs and moral wrongs, innovation in tort law, and methodology in interpretive private law theory. He is advised by Henry Smith, John Goldberg, and Molly Brady at Harvard, and by Daniel Markovits at Yale. His scholarship appears or is forthcoming in the Journal of Tort Law, McGill Law Journal, Osgoode Hall Journal, and Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory, amongst other venues. As a J.D. student, Singh co-founded the Yale-Toronto-Columbia Private Law Theory Discussion Group.

Before joining Texas Law, Singh practiced commercial litigation and international arbitration at Shearman & Sterling LLP and litigation boutique Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP in New York and clerked at the Court of Appeal for British Columbia. Singh holds an LL.M. from Yale Law School, where he studied as the Canadian Bar Association’s Viscount Bennett Fellow and was selected for a Fulbright Scholarship. Before graduate school at Harvard and Yale, he earned a J.D. with Distinction from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he received the Private Law Writing Prize, the Justice Michael J. Moldaver Prize, and the Dean’s Cecil A. Wright Key. Prior to law school, he completed an M.A. at the University of Toronto Department of Philosophy and a B.A. (Hons.) in philosophy at Trinity College, University of Toronto. Singh was born in Singapore and raised in Toronto.