{"id":27,"date":"2023-08-07T14:19:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T14:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2026-03-05T21:04:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T21:04:54","slug":"joseph-singer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph William Singer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Professor Joseph William Singer has been teaching at Harvard Law School since 1992. He was appointed Bussey Professor of Law in 2006. He began teaching at Boston University School of Law in 1984. Singer received a B.A. from Williams College in 1976, an A.M. in political science from Harvard in 1978, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1981. He clerked for Justice Morris Pashman on the Supreme Court of New Jersey from 1981 to 1982 and was an associate at the law firm of Palmer & Dodge in Boston, focusing on municipal law, from 1982 to 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Singer teaches and writes about property law, conflict of laws, and federal Indian law. He also writes about legal theory with an emphasis on moral and political philosophy. He has published more than 100 law review articles.\u00a0He is the author of\u00a0Persuasion: Getting to\u00a0the Other Side\u00a0<\/em>(2020), and\u00a0Choice of Law: Patterns, Arguments, Practices\u00a0<\/em>(2d ed. 2025), as well as\u00a0No Freedom Without Regulation: The\u00a0Hidden Lesson\u00a0of the Subprime Crisis<\/em>\u00a0(Yale University Press, 2015), and was one of the executive editors of the 2024 edition of\u00a0Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law<\/em>. He has written a casebook and a treatise on property law, (Property Law: Rules, Policies, and Practices (with Bethany R. Berger, Nestor M. Davidson, & Eduardo Mois\u00e9s Pe\u00f1alver) (Aspen, 9th ed. 2026) and Property (with Nestor M. Davidson) (Aspen 7th ed. 2026)), as well as two theoretical books on property called\u00a0Entitlement: The Paradoxes of Property\u00a0<\/em>(2000) and\u00a0The\u00a0Edges of the Field: Lessons on the Obligations of Ownership\u00a0<\/em>(2000).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Professor Joseph William Singer has been teaching at Harvard Law School since 1992. He was appointed Bussey Professor of Law in 2006. He began teaching at Boston University School of Law in 1984. Singer received a B.A. from Williams College in 1976, an A.M. in political science from Harvard in 1978, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1981. He clerked for Justice Morris Pashman on the Supreme Court of New Jersey from 1981 to 1982 and was an associate at the law firm of Palmer & Dodge in Boston, focusing on municipal law, from 1982 to 1984. Singer teaches and writes about property law, conflict of laws, and federal Indian law. He also writes about legal theory with an emphasis on moral and political philosophy. He has published more than 100 law review articles.\u00a0He is the author of\u00a0Persuasion: Getting to\u00a0the Other Side\u00a0(2020), and\u00a0Choice of Law: Patterns, Arguments, Practices\u00a0(2d ed. 2025), …<\/p>\n

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