Benjamin Levin
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401 UCB
2450 Kittredge Loop Drive
Wolf Law Building
Boulder, CO 80309
Office: 448
Phone: (303) 735-5981
E-mail: ben.levin@colorado.edu
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Bio:Benjamin Levin studies criminal law and policy. His current research examines criminal justice reform and its relationship to other movements for social and economic change. His scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in journals including the Columbia Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, theVirginia Law Review, the California Law Review Online, and the Harvard Law Review Forum. His writing for general audiences has appeared in Salon, Slate, and Time. Levin also serves on the Executive Board of the AALS Section on Criminal Justice and as a Senior Contributor for OnLabor.org.
At Colorado Law, Levin teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure: Adjudicative Process, and Advanced Criminal Justice. He received the Excellence in Teaching Award in 2022 and 2018, and he received the Outstanding New Faculty Member Award in 2018. In 2020, he received the Gordon J. Gamm Justice Award for his article What's Wrong with Police Unions?
Prior to joining the Colorado Law faculty, Levin served as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. At Harvard, he designed and taught an upper-level elective, Overcriminalization and the Limits of Criminal Law, in addition to teaching First-Year Legal Research and Writing. In 2016, he received the Harvard Law School Student Government Teaching and Advising Award.
Before entering academia, Levin worked at the civil rights firm of Neufeld Scheck and Brustin, LLP, where he focused on cases involving police and prosecutorial misconduct. He also clerked for Judge Leonard I. Garth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Judge Lawrence E. Kahn of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.
Levin earned his B.A., with distinction, from Yale University and his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he received the Irving Oberman Memorial Award for law and social change and served as an Executive Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.
Courses:
| Spring 2023 | Criminal Law | LAWS 5503-801 |
| Fall 2022 | Criminal Procedure: Adjudicative Process | LAWS 7045-801 |
| Fall 2022 | Seminar: Advanced Criminal Justice | LAWS 8315-801 |
| Spring 2022 | Criminal Law | LAWS 5503-801 |
| Fall 2021 | Criminal Procedure: Adjudicative Process | LAWS 7045-801 |
| Fall 2021 | Seminar: Advanced Criminal Justice | LAWS 8315-801 |
| Spring 2021 | Criminal Law | LAWS 5503-801 |
| Spring 2021 | Criminal Procedure: Adjudicative Process | LAWS 7045-801 |
| Spring 2020 | Criminal Law | LAWS 5503-801 |
| Fall 2019 | Criminal Procedure: Adjudicative Process | LAWS 7045-801 |
| Fall 2019 | Seminar: Advanced Criminal Justice | LAWS 8315-801 |
| Spring 2019 | Criminal Law | LAWS 5503-801 |
| Fall 2018 | Criminal Procedure: Adjudicative Process | LAWS 7045-801 |
| Fall 2018 | Seminar: Advanced Criminal Justice | LAWS 8315-801 |
| Spring 2018 | Criminal Law | LAWS 5503-801 |
| Fall 2017 | Criminal Procedure: Adjudicative Process | LAWS 7045-801 |