Professor Singer came to New England Law from the University of Denver, where he served as director of research for the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System.  His focus was on aspects of civil procedure and process, judicial selection, and judicial performance evaluation, and he authored numerous institute publications.  He had previously served as a senior litigation associate with Goodwin Procter LLP in Boston, with a practice emphasizing intellectual property litigation.

Professor Singer’s current research focuses on civil procedure, civil case management, and judicial selection and process.  He has made numerous presentations on these and other topics, including serving as a panelist at the Federal Advisory Committee on Civil Rules 2010 Litigation Review Conference at Duke Law School and presenting on “Innovation and Judicial Leadership” at the 2010 Federal Judges Association quadrennial conference.  He has also provided legislative testimony concerning judicial performance evaluation.

After graduating from law school, he served as a law clerk to Justice Gregory Hobbs, Jr., of the Colorado Supreme Court.  Singer received a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was deputy editor-in-chief of the Harvard International Law Journal.

 Selected Publications

The Mind of the Judicial Voter, 2011 Mich. St. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2012)

Proportionality’s Cultural Foundation, 52 Santa Clara L. Rev. 145 (2012)

A Matter of Size: An Analysis of Court Efficiency Using Hierarchical Linear Modeling, in Proceedings of the 2011 Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences (2011), (with Terry Dalton)

Reinvigorating Pleadings, 87 Denv. U. L. Rev. 245 (2010), (with Rebecca Love Kourlis and Paul C. Saunders)

New Report Establishes Principles for Improving the U.S. Civil Justice System, 93 Judicature 121 (2009), (with Rebecca Love Kourlis and Paul C. Saunders)

Managing Toward the Goals of Rule 1, 2009 Fed. Cts. L. Rev (2009), (with Rebecca Love Kourlis)

A Strategy for Judicial Performance Evaluation for New York, 72 Alb. L. Rev. 655 (2009), (with Rebecca Love Kourlis)

A Performance Evaluation Program for the Federal Judiciary, 86 Denv. U. L. Rev. 7 (2009), (with Rebecca Love Kourlis)

Survey of Experienced Litigators Finds Serious Cracks in U.S. Civil Justice System, 92 Judicature 78 (2008), (with Rebecca Love Kourlis and Paul C. Saunders)

Knowing Is Half the Battle: A Proposal for Prospective Performance Evaluations in Judicial Elections, 29 U. Ark. Little Rock L. Rev. 725 (2007)

Using Judicial Peformance Evaluations to Promote Judicial Accountability, 90 Judicature 200 (2007), (with Rebecca Love Kourlis)

Professor Singer can comment on the following subjects:

• Federal Procedural Rules
• Judicial performance evaluation
• Judicial selection (state and federal)