Amul R. Thapar serves as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. His judicial career began in 2007 when President George W. Bush nominated him to serve on the Eastern District of Kentucky, making him the first South Asian Article III judge in American history. In 2017, he became President Donald J. Trump’s first appellate court nominee.
Before joining the bench, Judge Thapar served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky. While United States Attorney, Judge Thapar worked on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (“AGAC”) and chaired the AGAC’s Controlled Substances and Asset Forfeiture subcommittee. He also served on the Terrorism and National Security subcommittee, the Violent Crime subcommittee, and the Child Exploitation working group.
Judge Thapar has worked in private practice, at Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., and Squire, Sanders & Dempsey in Cincinnati, Ohio. He also served as an Assistant United States Attorney in both the Southern District of Ohio and the District of Columbia.
Judge Thapar received his undergraduate degree from Boston College and his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley. After graduating, Judge Thapar worked as a law clerk to the Honorable S. Arthur Spiegel of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, and the Honorable Nathaniel R. Jones of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Judge Thapar has also published in the Yale Law Journal, Michigan Law Review, and Catholic University Law Review. He teaches courses on originalism, the Federalists and Anti-Federalists, and legal writing at Notre Dame Law School, the University of Virginia School of Law, and Vanderbilt Law School.
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A Conversation with Judge Thapar
Stanford Student Chapter
Stanford Law School559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305
Banquet Dinner: A Conversation Among the Circuits
2025 Florida Chapters Conference
Disney's Yacht & Beach Club Resort1700 Epcot Resorts Blvd
Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830
Practice Groups: Applying the Text and History Methodology to Looming Second Amendment Battles After Rahimi
2024 National Lawyers Convention
The Washington Hilton1919 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20009
Conversation with the Honorable Amul Thapar about Justice Clarence Thomas and the U.S. Constitution
Co-Sponsored by the Broward Lawyers Chapter, Palm Beach Lawyers Chapter, and Florida Atlantic University College of Business
Florida Atlantic University - College of Business777 Glades Road
Boca Raton, FL 33431
Luncheon Panel: It's the End of the World as we Know it?
The Future of Law in an AI World
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20036
Practice Groups: Applying the Text and History Methodology to Looming Second Amendment Battles After Rahimi
2024 National Lawyers Convention
Last term, the Supreme Court decided United States v. Rahimi, which built upon the text-first,...
Practice Groups: Applying the Text and History Methodology to Looming Second Amendment Battles After Rahimi
2024 National Lawyers Convention
Last term, the Supreme Court decided United States v. Rahimi, which built upon the text-first,...
Luncheon Panel: It's the End of the World as we Know it?
The Future of Law in an AI World
Featuring: Matthew Feeney, Head of Tech & Innovation, Centre for Policy Studies Jennifer Huddleston, Senior Technology Policy...
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The Federalist Society's Student Division & The University of Louisville School of Law Chapter
The Federalist Society's Student Division & The University of Louisville School of Law Chapter present...
Panel I: What is General Common Law and How do Originalist/Textualist Judges Use It?
2024 Florida Chapters Conference
Justice Antonin Scalia succeeded in making textualism the predominant method of legal interpretation. But now...