Amitpal C. Singh (JD 2021) has been awarded the 2023-2024 Viscount Bennett Fellowship for graduate legal studies.
The Canadian Bar Association (CBA) awards one $25,000 fellowship annually to a Canadian law school graduate for post-graduate studies in law at an institution approved by the awarding committee. The fellowship is named after CBA past-president (1929-30), the Right Honorable Viscount Bennett, who established the fund to encourage advanced legal education.
Singh has practiced international arbitration and commercial litigation in New York and London, first at Shearman & Sterling LLP, and then at litigation boutique Holwell, Shuster & Goldberg LLP.
With the support of the fellowship, he will enrol in the Master of Laws (LLM) program at Yale Law School, where he plans to focus on issues at the intersection of private law theory, legal philosophy, and Aboriginal law.
“I am honoured and humbled to carry the torch of the Viscount Bennett Fellowship to Yale Law School,” said Singh in the CBA’s news release.
“I believe that careful theoretical reflection, properly anchored in legal doctrine and practice, can be a force for positive, real-world change. The fellowship will allow me to reaffirm my commitment to that project, with a particular focus on the land rights of Canada’s Indigenous Peoples and the complex issues of property law, constitutional law, and legal philosophy that those rights raise.”
Singh also thanks his "support network" of U of T Law professors Larissa Katz, Dean Jutta Brunnée, Vincent Chiao, David Dyzenhaus, Christopher Essert, Sophia Moreau, Jim Phillips, Arthur Ripstein and Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii).
