Joseph William Singer

Bussey Professor of Law

Office:	Griswold 306
Assistant:	Patricia Fazzone 617/496-2075
Phone:	(617) 496-5292
Fax:	(617) 496-4863
Email:	jsinger@law.harvard.edu
Web Page:	(link)

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Bibliography

Books

Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law (Nell Jessup Newton, Joseph William Singer et al. eds., LexisNexis 2012).
Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
((on Executive Board of the Board of Authors and Editors))

Singer, Joseph William. Property Law: Rules, Policies & Practices (Aspen Publishers 5th ed ed. 2010).
Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
(Aspen Law & Business, 4th ed. 2006; Aspen Law & Business, 3d ed. 2002; Aspen Law & Business, 2d ed. 1997 Little, Brown & Co., 1st ed. 1993)

Singer, Joseph William. Property (Aspen Publishers 3d ed. 2009).
Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)

Singer, Joseph William & Joseph P. Kallt. Myths and Realities of Tribal Sovereignty: The Law and Economics of Indian-Self-Rule (Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, & Univ. of Ariz. Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy 2004).

Singer, Joseph William. The Edges of the Field: Lessons on the Obligations of Ownership (Beacon Press 2000).
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Singer, Joseph William. Entitlement: The Paradoxes of Property (Yale University Press 2000).
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Shorter Works in Collection

Singer, Joseph William. "Erasing Indian Country: The Story of Tee-Hit-Ton Indians v. United States" in Indian Law Stories 229 (Carole Goldberg, Kevin K. Washburn & Philip P. Frickey eds., Foundation Press, 2011).

Singer, Joseph William. "Property Law as the Infrastructure of Democracy" in Powell on Real Property (Michael Allan Wolf ed., forthcoming 2011).

Singer, Joseph William. "Property Law as the Infrastructure of Democracy [The Fourth in the Wolf Family Lecture Series on the American Law of Real Property]" in 11-1 Powell on Real Property (Michael Allan Wolf ed., NexisLexis (Matthew Bender), 2011).

Singer, Joseph William. "How Property Norms Construct the Externalities of Ownership" in Property and Community (Gregory S. Alexander & Eduardo Penalver eds., Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2009).

Singer, Joseph William. "Property and Social Relations: From Title to Entitlement" in Property and Values: Striking an Equitable Balance of Public and Private and Private Interests (Charles Geisler ed., 2000).

Singer, Joseph William. "Property" in The Politics of Law (David Kairys ed., 1998).

Articles in a Periodical

Singer, Joseph William. "Subprime: Why a Free and Democratic Society Needs Law," 47 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 141 (2012).

Singer, Joseph William. "Original Acquisition of Property: From Conquest and Possession to Democracy and Equal Opportunity," 86 Indiana Law Journal 1 (2011).

Singer, Joseph William. "The Anti-Apartheid Principle in American Property Law," 1 Alabama Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review 83 (2011).

Singer, Joseph William. "Property Law and the Mortgage Crisis: Libertarian Fantasies and Subprime Realities," 1 Property Law Review 7 (2011).

Singer, Joseph William. "The Reliance Interest in Property Revisisted," 7 Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left 79 (2011).
Full text: WWW

Minow, Martha L. & Joseph William Singer. "In Favor of Foxes: Pluralism as Fact and Aid to the Pursuit of Justice," 90 Boston University Law Review 903 (2010).

Singer, Joseph William. "Normative Methods for Lawyers," 56 UCLA Law Review 899 (2009).

Singer, Joseph William. "Critical Normativity," 20 Law and Critique 27 (2009).

Singer, Joseph William. "Democratic Estates: Property Law in a Free and Democratic Society," 94 Cornell Law Review 1009 (2009).

Singer, Joseph William. "Economic Regulation and the Rule of Law: Minimum Standards for the Legal Framework of a Free and Democratic Society," 48 Judges J. 4 (2009).

Alexander, Gregory S., Eduardo M. Pe�alver, Joseph William Singer & Laura Underkuffler. "A Statement of Progressive Property," 94 Cornell Law Review 743 (2009).

Singer, Joseph William. "Things That We Would Like to Take For Granted: Minimum Standards for the Legal Framework of a Free and Democratic Society," 2 Harvard Law & Policy Review 139 (2008).

Singer, Joseph William. "Corporate Responsibility in a Free and Democratic Society," 58 Case Western Reserve Law Review 1031 (2008).

Singer, Joseph William. "After the Flood: Property and Equality in Property Regimes," 52 Loyola Law Review 243 (2006).

Singer, Joseph William. "The Ownership Society and Takings of Property: Castles, Investments, and Just Obligations," 30 Harvard Environmental Law Review 309 (2006).
Full text: SSRN (Harvard Users)

Singer, Joseph William. "Book Review: Johan van der Walt, Law and Sacrifice: Toward Post-Apartheid Theory of Law," 15 Sociology and Legal Studies 605 (2006) (book review).

Singer, Joseph William. "Nine-Tenths of the Law: Title, Possession, and Sacred Obligations," 38 Connecticut Law Review 605 (2006).

Singer, Joseph William. "Double Bind: Indian Nations v. the Supreme Court," 119 Harvard Law Review Forum 1 (2005) (article review).
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Singer, Joseph William. "Symposium Foreword: Indian Nations and the Law," 41 Tulsa Law Review 1 (2005).

Singer, Joseph William. "Same Sex Marriage, Full Faith and Credit, and the Evasion of Obligation," 1 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 1 (2005).
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Singer, Joseph William. "Canons of Conquest: The Supreme Court's Attack on Tribal Sovereignty," 37 New England Law Review 641 (2003).
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Singer, Joseph William. "Something Important in Humanity," 37 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 103 (2002).
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Singer, Joseph William. "Starting Property," 46 Saint Louis University Law Journal 565 (2002).
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Singer, Joseph William. "Lone Wolf, or How to Take Property by Calling it a 'Mere Change in the Form of Investment'," 38 Tulsa Law Review 37 (2002).
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Singer, Joseph William. "Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain: The Place of Better Law in a Third Restatement of Conflicts," 75 Indiana Law Journal 659 (2000).
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Singer, Joseph William. "The Stranger Who Resides With You: Ironies of Asian American and American Indian Legal History," 40 Boston College Law Review 171 (1998).
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(Article appeared in Symposium: the Long Shadow of Korematsu published 19 B.C.L. Rev./B.C. Third World L.J. 171 (1998))

Singer, Joseph William. "Property and Equality: Public Accommodations and the Constitution in South Africa and the United States," 12 South African Journal of Public Law 53 (1997).

Singer, Joseph William. "Rent," 39 Boston College Law Review 1 (1997).
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Singer, Joseph William. "Justice and the Conflict of Laws," 48 Mercer Law Review 831 (1997).
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Singer, Joseph William. "No Right to Exclude: Public Accommodations and Private Property," 90 Northwestern University Law Review 1283 (1996).
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Singer, Joseph William. "Publicity Rights and the Conflict of Laws: Tribal Court Jurisdiction in the Crazy Horse Case," 41 South Dakota Law Review 1 (1996).
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Singer, Joseph William. "Conference on Jurisdiction, Justice, and Choice of Law for the Twenty-First Century: Case Four: Choice of Law Theory," 29 New England Law Review 692 (1995).
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Singer, Joseph William. "Remembering What Hurts Us Most: A Critique of the American Indian Law Deskbook," 24 University of New Mexico Law Review 315 (1994).

Singer, Joseph William. "Well Settled?: The Increasing Weight of History in American Indian Land Claims," 28 Georgia Law Review 481 (1994).

Singer, Joseph William. "Jobs and Justice: Rethinking the Stakeholder Debate," 43 Toronto Law Review 475 (1993).

Singer, Joseph William & Jack Beermann. "The Social Origins of Property," 6 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 217 (1993).

Singer, Joseph William. "Re-Reading Property," 26 New England Law Review 711 (1992).

Singer, Joseph William. "Sovereignty and Property," 86 Northwestern University Law Review 1 (1991).

Singer, Joseph William. "Facing Real Conflicts," 24 Cornell International Law Journal 197 (1991).

Singer, Joseph William. "The Continuing Conquest: American Indian Nations, Property Law, and Gunsmoke," 1 Reconstruction 97 (1991).

Singer, Joseph William. "A Pragmatic Guide to Conflicts," 70 Boston University Law Review 731 (1990).

Singer, Joseph William. "Property and Coercion in Federal Indian Law: The Conflict between Critical and Complacent Pragmatism," 63 Southern California Law Review 1821 (1990).

Singer, Joseph William & Jack Beermann. "Baseline Questions in Legal Reasoning: The Example of Property in Jobs," 23 Georgia Law Review 911 (1989).

Singer, Joseph William. "Persuasion," 87 Michigan Law Review 2442 (1989).

Singer, Joseph William. "Real Conflicts," 69 Boston University Law Review 1 (1989).

Singer, Joseph William. "Why Should Lawyers Care About Philosophy?" 1989 Duke Law Journal 1752 (1989).

Singer, Joseph William. "Legal Realism Now," 76 California Law Review 465 (1988).

Singer, Joseph William. "The Reliance Interest in Property," 40 Stanford Law Review 611 (1988).

Singer, Joseph William. "Radical Moderation," 1985 American Bar Foundation Research Journal 329 (1985).

Singer, Joseph William. "The Player and the Cards: Nihilism and Legal Theory," 94 Yale Law Journal 1 (1984).

Singer, Joseph William. "Catcher in the Rye Jurisprudence," 35 Rutgers Law Review 275 (1983).

Singer, Joseph William. "The Legal Rights Debate in Analytical Jurisprudence from Bentham to Hohfeld," 1982 Wisconsin Law Review 975 (1982).

Working or Discussion Papers

Singer, Joseph William & Joseph P. Kalt. "Myths and Realities of Tribal Sovereignty: The Law and Economics of Indian Self-Rule," John F. Kennedy School of Government Faculty Research Working Paper Series, No. RWP04-016 (2004).
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Presentations

Singer, Joseph William. Foreclosure and the Failures of Formality, to be presented at U.C. Davis Law School, Sept. 2013 (Sept 2013).

Singer, Joseph William. Titles of Nobility: Property, Poverty, and Immigration in a Free and Democratic Society, Keynote Address to be delivered at AALS Conference on Poverty, Immigration (June 2013).

Singer, Joseph William. Foreclosure and the Failures of Formality, to be presented at Progressive Property Conference, May 2013 (May 2013).

Singer, Joseph William. Foreclosure and the Failures of Formality, to be presented at Universit� du Luxembourg, Facult� de Droit (Law Faculty, University of Luxembourg), Apr. 2013 (Apr 2013).

Singer, Joseph William. The Indian States of America: Parallel Universes & Overlapping Sovereignty, public lecture delivered at Vassar College, Jan. 31, 2013 (Jan. 31, 2013).

Singer, Joseph William. The Rule of Reason in Property Law, presented at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, November 2012 (November 2012).

Singer, Joseph William. Tribal Sovereignty and Human Rights, presented at symposium at Michigan State University College of Law, October 2012 (Oct 2012).

Singer, Joseph William. The Rule of Reason in Property Law: Lessons from the Subprime Crisis, presented at Progressive Property Conference, Harvard Law School, May 2012 (May 2012).

Singer, Joseph William. The Rule of Reason in Property Law: Lessons from the Subprime Crisis, presented at Property Works in Progress Conference, Fordham Law School, May 2012 (May 2012).

Singer, Joseph William. Property Law as the Infrastructure of Democracy, Fourth Annual Wolf Family Lecture on American Property Law, University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law (April 2011).

Singer, Joseph William. Property Law as the Infrastructure of Democracy, paper presented at New England School of Law (March 2011).

Singer, Joseph William. Democratic Estates, address at European Critical Legal Studies Conference (September 2008).

Singer, Joseph William. Critical Normativity, address at European Critical Legal Studies Conference (September, 2008).

Singer, Joseph William. Democratic Estates, Progressive Property Conference, Harvard Law School (June, 2008).

Singer, Joseph William. Democratic Estates, Conference on Property Law works in Progress, University of Colorado School of Law (June, 2008).

Singer, Joseph William. Normative Methods for Lawyers, University of Miami School of Law, faculty workshop (Fall, 2008).

Singer, Joseph William. After the Flood: Reconstruction and Property Regimes, Brendan Brown Lecture at Loyola Law School (2006).

Singer, Joseph William. The Ownership Society: Regulatory Takings and Just Obligations, keynote address at Regulatory Takings Conference organized by the Environmental Law Clinic at Georgetown Law School, at Harvard Law School (Oct. 2005).

Singer, Joseph William. Nine-Tenths of the Law: Title, Possession, and Sacred Obligations, paper presented at symposium celebrating publication of the 2005 edition of Cohen�s Handbook of Federal Indian Law, at University of Connecticut School of Law (Oct. 2005).

Singer, Joseph William. Same Sex Marriage, Full Faith and Credit, and the Evasion of Obligation, paper presented at Symposium to celebrate the Inaugural Issue of the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (January 2005).

Singer, Joseph William. Comment on Jack Balkin, Why Lochner Was Wrong the Day It Was Decided and Why that Matters, Lochner Conference at Boston University Schoolof Law (Oct. 2004).

Singer, Joseph William. Presentation on Same Sex Marriage and the Full Faith and Credit Clause, American Association of Law Librarians Annual Meeting, Boston (April 2004).

Singer, Joseph William & Joseph Kalt. Myths and Realities of Tribal Sovereignty: The Law and Economics of Indian Self-Rule, paper presented at Harvard University Native American Program's Native Issues Research Symposium, Harvard University (December 4-5, 2003).

Singer, Joseph William. Canons of Conquest: The Supreme Court's Attack on Tribal Sovereignty (January 2002).
(Clason Lecture presented at Western New England School of Law)

Singer, Joseph William. Indian Land Claims, paper presented at University of Connecticut Law School (March, 2001).

Singer, Joseph William. Entitlement, paper presented at Joint Property, Contract, and Tort Section Meetings, American Association of Law Schools, San Francisco (January, 1998).

Singer, Joseph William. Rent, paper presented at Boston College Law School (November, 1997).

Singer, Joseph William. Reparations, panel discussion at 12th Annual Human Rights and Justice Conference, Facing History and Ourselves: Collective Violence and Memory: Judgment, Reconciliation, Education, Cambridge, MA (April, 1997).

Singer, Joseph William. Public Accommodations and the Constitution in South Africa and the United States, paper presented at University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa and Stellenbosch LawSchool, Stellenbosch, South Africa (January, 1997).

Singer, Joseph William. Property and Social Relations, paper presented at Faculty Workshop at George Washington University Law Center, Washington, D.C (March, 1996).

Singer, Joseph William. Delivered Recht en kritiek lecture for 1995, entitled Property as a Social System: From Title to Entitlement, presented at the Maastricht Conference on Property Law on the Threshold of the 21st Century, held at Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands (August, 1995).

Singer, Joseph William. Property as a Social System: From Title to Entitlement, presented at tthe Maastricht Conference on Property Law on the Threshold of the 21st Century, held at Rijksuniversiteit Limbrug, Maastricht, The Netherlands (August, 1995).

Singer, Joseph William. How Race Has Affected Property Law in the United States, presentation at Crit Networks Conference, Georgetown University Law Center (March, 1995).

Singer, Joseph William. Tribal Property, paper presented at Diversity Month presentation at Boston College Law School (March, 1995).

Singer, Joseph William. Choice of Law, moderated panel at conference on Conflict of Laws at New England Law School (October, 1994).

Singer, Joseph William. Tribal Court Jurisdiction, presentation at American Indian Law Conference, American University, Washington College of Law (April, 1994).

Singer, Joseph William. American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Chair of Section on Conflict of Laws, Joint Meeting with Section on Native American Rights, Orlando, Florida (1994).

Singer, Joseph William & Martha Mahoney. Program co-chair with Martha Mahoney for Property Section for Conference on Integrating Issues of Race, Gender, Disability, Sexual Orientation, and Class into the Curriculum, run by Society of American Law Teachers, at New York (May, 1993).

Singer, Joseph William. Rethinking Property, presentation at Trade Union Program, Harvard University (March, 1993).

Singer, Joseph William. Teaching Property, Faculty Workshop at New England School of Law (January, 1993).

Singer, Joseph William. Stakeholders, presented (in absentia) at Conference on Stakeholders, at University of Toronto School of Law (April, 1992).

Singer, Joseph William. Distributive Issues in Property Law, presented at Property Section, American Association of Law Schools Conference in San Antonio, Texas (January 1992).

Singer, Joseph William. Teaching Jurisprudence in Property Clases, presented at Mini-Workshop on Jurisprudence, American Association of Law Schools Conference in San Antonio, Texas (January 1982).

Singer, Joseph William. Teaching Property, presentation at University of Connecticut School of Law (October, 1991).

Singer, Joseph William. Re-Reading Property presented at Northeastern University Law School (October, 1991).

Singer, Joseph William. Private Property Theory presented at the June 1991 meeting of the Law and Society Association in Amsterdam, Netherlands (June, 1991).

Singer, Joseph William. Reliance Interest in Property presented at the Critical Legal Studies Summer Camp in Amsterdam, Netherlands in a joint meeting with Dutch legal services attorneys and law professors (1991).

Singer, Joseph William. Sovereignty and Property presented at the January 1991 Native American Rights Section Meeting of the American Association of Law Schools, Washington, D.C (1991).

Singer, Joseph William. Facing Real Conflicts, presented at the January 1991 Conflict of Laws Section Meeting of the American Association of Law Schools, Washington, D.C (1991).

Singer, Joseph William. Should Lawyers Care About Philosophy? presented at Legal University of Toronto School of Law, Legal Theory Workshop, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1990).

Singer, Joseph William. Property and Coercion in Federal Indian Law: The Conflict between Complacent and Critical Pragmatism, presented at University of Southern California Law Center, Symposium in Neo-Pragmatism and Law, Los Angeles, CA (1990).

Singer, Joseph William. Sovereignty and Property, presented at Duke University, Symposium on Frontiers in Legal Thought, Durham, N.C (1990).

Singer, Joseph William. Baseline Questions in Legal Reasoning, presented at University of Texas School of Law Faculty Workshop, Austin, TX (1988).

Singer, Joseph William. The Reliance Interest in Property, presented at Law and Society Association, Chicago, IL (1987).
(American Association of Law Schools, Property Section Meeting, Los Angeles, CA (1987)Duke University School of Law Faculty Workshop Durham, NC (1986). Conference of Critical Legal Studies, Georgetown University, Washington D.C (1986))

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