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Hillel Y. Levin

Assistant Professor of Law

B.A., Yeshiva University
J.D., Yale University

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Courses

Civil Procedure
Constitutional Law
Legislation

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Biographical Information

Hillel Y. Levin joined Georgia Law in the fall of 2008 as an assistant professor teaching courses in civil procedure, constitutional law and legislation.

Levin comes to UGA from Stanford Law School where he served as an instructor and fellow and taught legal research and writing. Previously, he served as a judicial law clerk for Judge Thomas Meskill of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit and for Judge Robert N. Chatigny of the U.S. District Court in the District of Connecticut. He also specialized in complex litigation as an associate at Robinson & Cole.

Levin's research focuses on the empirical and normative evaluation of legal process and judicial decision-making. His work has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the Connecticut Law Review, the Green Bag and elsewhere. Recent and forthcoming publications include:

• The Food Stays in the Kitchen: Everything I Needed to Know About Statutory Interpretation I Learned by the Time I was Nine;
• Making the Law: Unpublication in the District Courts;
• What Do We Really Know About the Revolution in Choice of Law?;
• and Is There a Bias Against Education in the Jury Selection Process?

He has also published several pieces in newspapers around the country, was featured as a guest on talk radio and has blogged on prawfsblawg, a popular law-related site. In 2009, Levin was elected to the position of secretary of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Law and Interpretation.

Levin earned his B.A. in history, summa cum laude, from Yeshiva University and his J.D. from Yale University, where he served as note and book note editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities.

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