Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal

Sandeep Dhaliwal is an Assistant Professor of Law and Associate Director of the Center for Labor and Employment Law. Professor Dhaliwal's interests include labor law, criminal law, race and the law, and law and political economy. His research examines the intersection of labor and state violence, and the history of American legal thought around issues of racial and economic justice. Professor Dhaliwal's scholarship has been published in the Georgetown Law Journal and UC Davis Law Review. His other writing has appeared in outlets including Inquest, the LPE Blog, and the New York Times.

Professor Dhaliwal teaches Race and the Law, Business Associations, and courses on law and political economy. He is committed to training students to become confident, versatile, and ethical advocates, and to supporting students as they think about law as an instrument of both justice and injustice. 

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.