Assistant Professor of Law Associate Director, Center for Labor and Employment Law
Sandeep Dhaliwal is an Assistant Professor of Law and Associate Director of the Center for Labor and Employment Law. His research and teaching interests include race and the law, labor law, constitutional law, corporate law, law and political economy, and the history of American legal thought. He is committed to training students to become confident, versatile, and ethical advocates, and to supporting them as they think about law as an instrument of both justice and injustice.
Professor Dhaliwal's current research falls into two main areas, examining: (1) the political economy of the criminal system, and (2) the legal thought of figures and movements working toward racial and economic justice. His most recent scholarship systematically analyzes the legal thought of the great writer, activist, and scholar W.E.B. Du Bois. And his latest project focuses on how Reconstruction narratives are being mobilized today to defend and advance progressive visions of multiracial democracy.
Professor Dhaliwal's scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Cornell Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, UC Davis Law Review, and Michigan Law Review Online. His public writing, which includes essays, op-eds, and book reviews, has appeared in outlets including Inquest, the LPE Blog, and the New York Times.
Professor Dhaliwal graduated cum laude from Columbia College and received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Prior to joining St. John's, Professor Dhaliwal held appointments at NYU School of Law as an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering and, subsequently, as a Research Scholar and Director of the Business Transactions Clinic. Before entering academia, he was an associate in the New York office of Debevoise & Plimpton, where he had a wide-ranging bank regulatory and transactional practice. He also maintained an active pro bono docket, which included work to erase student debt, defend immigrant clients from removal, and push for sentence reductions on behalf of incarcerated clients.
- What's Left of the New Deal State?, 124 Mich. L. Rev. Online 20 (2025)
- The Criminal System Under Racial Capitalism, 58 UC Davis L. Rev. 1589 (2025)
- Making Labor Work, Inquest (Sept. 19, 2024)
- Cruel, but not Unusual, Market Foundations, LPE Blog (Oct. 2, 2023)
- Investing in Abolition, 112 Geo. L.J. 1 (2023)
- How Mandatory Minimums are Weaponized, N.Y. Times (Jul. 1, 2020)