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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
Administrative Law

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Biographical Information

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

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

His current research focuses on statutory interpretation and judicial process. Levin's scholarship has appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the Connecticut Law Review and the Green Bag, among others. Recent and forthcoming publications include:

• Resolving Interstate Conflicts Arising from Same-Sex Non-Marriage;
• Conflicts and the Shifting Landscape Around Same-Sex Relationships;
• Iqbal, Twombly, and the Lessons of the Celotex Trilogy;
• 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?

Levin has also published several pieces in newspapers around the country, has testified before the state legislature, was featured as a guest on talk radio and has blogged on prawfsblawg, a popular law-related site.

He 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 & the Humanities.

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