Question: From 1981 to 1983 Stuart H. Singer was a law clerk for a US Supreme Court justice that died in what year?
Context: The Supreme Court is composed of the Chief Justice, twenty Justices.  The Chief Justice is appointed by the President on the recommendation of the Constitutional Council.  S/he is appointed from among the justices having at least three years as a Supreme Court justice.  Justices of the Supreme Court are appointed by the President of Nepal on the recommendation of the Judicial Council.  The Chief Justice and the justices of the Supreme Court have to be confirmed by the Parliamentary Hearing Committee before they can be appointed by the President.  The administrative head of the Supreme Court is the Chief Registrar.  In addition to the Chief Registrar, one Registrar and four Joint-Registrar are appointed to led different departments of the Supreme Court and offer administrative assistance to the Court.  Officers of the Supreme Court are appointed by Government of Nepal under the recommendation of the Judicial Service Commission. Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court is a 1998 book by Edward Lazarus, who served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun during the October Term 1988.  Lazarus combines his reflections as a clerk with a substantial body of research to describe the collapse in comity between Justices - and particularly clerks - at the Supreme Court.  The book is noted both for its extraordinary inside access to internal Supreme Court deliberation and its arguably balanced account of the controversy surrounding many high-profile Supreme Court decisions on the death penalty, civil rights, and abortion. John Frush Knox (1907–1997) served as secretary and law clerk to United States Supreme Court Justice James Clark McReynolds from 1936 to 1937.  After working at various law firms, he took over the family mail-order business and then worked as an insurance adjuster.  He is chiefly known for his memoir of his year spent working for Justice McReynolds. Christine Jolls (born October 1, 1967) is the Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor of Law and Organization at Yale Law School, where she has been on the faculty since 2006.  She is a leader in the emerging theory of behavioral economics and law.  Her areas of research include also employment law and contracts.  She received her B.A. in economics from Stanford University, a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.  She served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and taught at Harvard Law School before teaching at Yale Law School.  She often collaborates with Professor Cass Sunstein of Harvard Law School. Byron Raymond "Whizzer" White (June 8, 1917 – April 15, 2002) won fame both as an American football halfback and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Stuart H. Singer is an American attorney, the managing partner of the Boies Schiller & Flexner law firm's Fort Lauderdale, Florida office.  He specializes in complex business litigation and represents clients such as NASCAR, Carnival Cruise Lines, Florida Power & Light, and Tyco International.  He was a law clerk for Justice Byron White of the United States Supreme Court from 1981 to 1983.  He graduated in 1981 from Harvard Law School, where he served as Editor & President of the Harvard Law Review.  He received his bachelor's degree in 1978 from Northwestern University, where he won the National Collegiate Debate Championship.  He is listed in LawDragon's 500 Leading Lawyers in America.  He is the co-author, with David W. Quinto, of "Trade Secrets: Law & Practice" (Oxford University Press, 2008). John F. Manning (born 1961) is the Dean of Harvard Law School, a prominent American legal academic and the Morgan and Hellen Chu Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.  He graduated from Harvard College in 1982 and from Harvard Law School in 1985.  Following law school, he served as a law clerk to Judge Robert H. Bork at the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  He then served as law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia for the Supreme Court's 1988 term. Rex Edwin Lee (February 27, 1935 – March 11, 1996) was an American lawyer, law clerk for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White, and the United States Solicitor General during the Reagan administration.  He argued 59 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.  A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), Lee was an alumnus and the tenth president of Brigham Young University (BYU).  Lee was a first cousin of Mo Udall and Stewart Udall. Patricia A. Dean (1949 – October 27, 2004) was an American attorney and a partner with the Arnold & Porter law firm in Washington, D.C..  She was a deputy clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1978 to 1981, the first woman to serve in that position, and then served as a law clerk for Justice Byron White of the United States Supreme Court from 1982 to 1983. Ronald T. Y. Moon (born September 4, 1940) was the Chief Justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court in Honolulu, Hawaii.  He served his first term from 1993 to 2003, and his second term from 2003 until retiring in August 2010.  Moon studied at Coe College towards bachelor's degrees in psychology and sociology.  He went on to the University of Iowa College of Law, where he obtained his doctorate of jurisprudence.  He returned to Honolulu in 1965 and became law clerk to United States District Court Judge Martin Pence.  He served under Pence for a year.  In 1966, Moon joined the staff of the Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu where he was deputy prosecutor until 1968.  He left public service to become a partner in the law firm Libkuman, Ventura, Moon and Ayabe where he stayed until 1982.  It was from the law firm that Governor George Ariyoshi appointed Moon to the Hawaii State Judiciary as a circuit court judge.  Governor John Waihee then elevated Moon to the office of Associate Justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court in 1990.  In 1993, Moon was once again elevated to become chief justice.
Answer: 2002