Judge Amul R. Thapar, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Supported by the Jack Miller Center

Join us for our annual Antonin Scalia Constitution Day Lecture with Judge Amul Thapar, "Originalism in Theory and Practice."

Judge 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 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 received his undergraduate degree from Boston College and his law degree from the University of California, Berkeley. 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.