Amul Roger Thapar

Amul Thapar

Amul Roger Thapar (born April 29, 1969 in Detroit , Michigan ) is an American lawyer . He is the first US federal district judge of South Asian descent and is currently the youngest judge at that level.

Career

Thapar was born in Detroit and received his Bachelor of Science degree from Boston College in 1991. In 1994 he earned a JD from the University of California, Berkeley , Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley . Between 1994 and 1996, Thapar served as an associate attorney under S. Arthur Spiegel at the US District Court for the Southern District Court of Ohio and until 1997 in the same capacity under Nathaniel R. Jones at the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth District Court.

Scientific career

Between 1997 and 1999 and from 2002 to 2006 he taught as an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati Law College . Between 1997 and 1999 he was also privately employed as an intern in Washington, DC . At Georgetown University there, he also worked in the legal center from 1999 to 2000 as a trainer for procedural law. He served as a US attorney in Washington, DC from 1999 to 2000 and from 2000 to 2001 as a legal counsel for Equalfooting . As a resident attorney, Thapar worked in Cincinnati , Ohio from 2001 to 2002. He then returned to the southern Ohio judicial district as an assistant US attorney, where he remained until 2006. As a federal attorney , he then moved to the Eastern Jurisdiction of Kentucky and served there until 2007.

Jurisdiction

While serving as the Assistant Attorney General , Thapar was appointed to the Attorney General's Advisory Committee (“AGAC”) where he chaired the Seizure and Asset Management Subcommittee. He was also a member of the sub-committees on terrorism and national security , violent crime and child abuse .

President George W. Bush named him on May 24, 2007, to succeed Judge Joseph M. Hood of the US Court in the Eastern Judicial District of Kentucky. He was ratified by the Senate on December 13, 2007 and received his Deed of Appointment on January 4, 2008. His offices are in Covington , Kentucky outside of Cincinnati, as well as in London , Kentucky, and Pikeville, also in Kentucky. While serving as a judge, Thapar was an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University Law School , University of Virginia School of Law , and Northern Kentucky University, and a visiting scholar on the Federalist Society program.

International attention

In 2013, a trial in Tennessee's eastern judicial district that saw Thapar serving as a substitute judge attracted attention. In the trial, three peace activists were charged with breaking into the highly secured uranium high-enrichment area Y-12 National Security Complex near Oak Ridge National Laboratory in July 2012 . The defendants, the oldest of whom was 84 years old, were sentenced to three years in prison and taken into custody. Thapar justified this by stating that the case was a federal crime of terrorism .

One of the accused was the 84-year-old pacifist nun Megan Rice , who wanted to draw attention to security deficiencies in the weapon complex. She had used a flashlight and a bolt cutter as tools. The other two activists were sentenced to five years because it was not their first offense. Contrary to the defense attorneys' request for a mild verdict based on demonstrated goodwill, Thapar sentenced Thapar with a deterrent sentence to deter other activists.

supporting documents

1. ↑ http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/263355/group/homepage/  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ ^{A b} Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 19, 2014: Anti-nuclear protest three years imprisonment for an 84-year-old nun for breaking into a nuclear facility
3. ↑ Knoxville News, September 13th ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nun-84-gets-3-years-in-prison-for-breaking-in-nuclear-weapons-complex/

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• Amul Roger Thapar in the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
• Vanderbilt Law Profile. [1]
• UVA Law Profile. [2]
• Northern Kentucky University Profile. [3]
• Knoxville News Sentinel article, 5/11/2013. [4]