Amrit Singh is a Staff Attorney at the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, where she has litigated cases relating to the use of diplomatic assurances to return individuals to countries known to employ torture, the indefinite and mandatory detention of immigrants, and discrimination against immigrants in the context of the federal government’s post 9/11 “special registration” program. In addition, Amrit has worked on a number of issues concerning the treatment of post 9/11 detainees held in U.S. custody abroad. She is counsel in ACLU v. Dep’t of Defense, a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that has sought to uncover records related to the torture of detainees held in U.S. custody abroad; and Ali v. Rumsfeld, a lawsuit brought against senior U.S. government officials on behalf of Iraqi and Afghan detainees who were tortured in U.S. custody. Prior to coming to the Immigrants’ Rights Project, Amrit litigated a variety of racial justice issues as the Karpatkin Fellow at the National Legal Department of the ACLU, including the post 9/11 airline discrimination against brown-skinned passengers and the failure of the state of Montana to provide adequate legal counsel to indigent criminal defendants. She graduated from Yale Law School in 2001.

Amrit is also the co-author (with Jameel Jaffer), of Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond (Columbia Univ. Press 2007).