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Jordan M. Singer
Contact Information

jsinger@nesl.edu
617-368-1434

Areas of Expertise
  • Judicial Selection and Evaluation
  • Patent Law and Litigation
  • Intellectual Property
  • Federal Procedural Rules
  • Civil Litigation
Courses

Jordan M. Singer

Professor of Law

Education

JD, Harvard Law School
AB, Harvard College

Professional Background

Professor Singer serves as the advisor for the Litigation concentration at New England Law | Boston. Previously he served as director of research for the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the University of Denver. 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, social cognition and courts, and judicial selection and evaluation. 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 is a member of the Massachusetts Committee on Judicial Performance Evaluation and the founder of a national working group on performance evaluation programs.

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

Professor Singer also shares his legal insights on his blog, The Interdependent Third Branch.

Selected Publications

Pa. could become a national outlier in how it elects appellate judges. Here’s why experts are worried., (2021)

In search of a muscular judiciary, The Hill (2020)

THE MACHINERY OF JUSTICE, JOTWELL (2020)

Citizens lose when partisans play politics with the federal judiciary, The Hill (2019)

The Federal Courts' Rulemaking Buffer, 60 William & Mary Law Review 2239 (2019)

Judicial Recall and Retention in the #MeToo Era, 55 Court Review 36 (2019)

BigLaw Forced Arbitration Expected To Survive Amid #MeToo, (2019)

Wendy Vitter, with one exception, might have what it takes to be federal judge, (2018)

Judges on Demand: The Cognitive Case for Cameras in the Courtroom, 115 Columbia Law Review Sidebar 79 (2015)

Gossiping About Judges, 42 Florida State University Law Review 427 (2015)

Bigger Isn't Always Better: An Analysis of Court Efficiency Using Hierarchical Linear Modeling, 34 Pace Law Review 1169 (2014) (with Terry Dalton)

Bench Presence: Toward a More Complete Model of Federal District Court Productivity, 118 Penn State Law Review 55 (2013) (with Hon. William G. Young)

Measuring Bench Presence: Federal District Judges in the Courtroom, 2008–2012, 118 Penn State Law Review 243 (2013) (with Hon. William G. Young)

Proportionality’s Cultural Foundation, 52 Santa Clara Law Review 145 (2012)

The Mind of the Judicial Voter, 2011 Michigan State Law Review 1443 (2012)

Reinvigorating Pleadings, 87 Denver University Law Review 245 (2010) (with Rebecca Love Kourlis and Natalie A. Knowlton)

Managing Toward the Goals of Rule 1, 2009 Federal Courts Law Review (2009) (with Rebecca Love Kourlis)

A Strategy for Judicial Performance Evaluation for New York, 72 Albany Law Review 655 (2009) (with Rebecca Love Kourlis)

A Performance Evaluation Program for the Federal Judiciary, 86 Denver University Law Review 7 (2009) (with Rebecca Love Kourlis)

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

Civil Case Processing in the Federal District Courts: A Twenty-First Century Analysis, Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (2009)

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 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 725 (2007)

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