Laurie Levenson

Laurie Lou Levenson (born December 7, 1956) is a Professor of Law, William M. Rains Fellow, the David W. Burcham Chair in Ethical Advocacy, and Director of the Center for Legal Advocacy at Loyola Law School of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She teaches evidence, criminal law, criminal procedure, ethics, anti-terrorism, and white collar crime. She served as Loyola’s Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 1996-1999. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, Levenson is also the Director of the Loyola Center for Ethical Advocacy. She was the 2003 recipient of Professor of the Year from both Loyola Law School and the Federal Judicial Center.

Laurie Levenson
Born
Laurie Lou Levenson[1]

(1956-12-07) December 7, 1956[2]
Los Angeles County, California, U.S.[2]
EducationUCLA School of Law (JD)
Stanford University (BA)
Scientific career
FieldsLaw
InstitutionsLoyola Law School

Education

Levenson was born on born December 7, 1956 and is a native of Los Angeles. She graduated with a B.A. from Stanford University in 1977; and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from UCLA School of Law in 1980, where she was the chief article editor of the UCLA Law Review.[3]

Career

Levenson clerked for Judge James Hunter III on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Following that she served as an assistant United States Attorney for the Central District of California, where she rose to the position of assistant division chief.

While a federal prosecutor, she tried a wide variety of federal criminal cases, including violent crimes, narcotics offenses, white collar crimes, and immigration and public corruption cases. She served as Chief of the Training Section and Chief of the Criminal Appellate Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office. In 1988, she received the Attorney General’s Director’s Award for Superior Performance. Additionally, she received commendations from the FBI, IRS, U.S. Postal Service, and DEA.[3]

Levenson joined the Loyola Law School faculty in 1989. Levenson lectures regularly throughout the country and internationally for the Federal Judicial Center, National Judicial College, international bar associations, bar review courses, community groups and legal societies. She also testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee and the California Legislature regarding SB 490 (Death Penalty).

Levenson has served as a volunteer counsel for the "Webster Commission" and as a Special Master for the Los Angeles Superior Court and United States District Court. She has served as a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Judicial Appointments Committee and Judiciary Committee. Levenson serves on the Board of Directors for Bet Tzedek Legal Services - The House of Justice.

Along with Erwin Chemerinsky, she has argued that a "meaningful public trial in the 1990s requires that it be broadcast because few people realistically can attend court proceedings."[4]

Publications and television commentary

She has written books on California criminal law and is a frequent television commentator on criminal legal issues, first coming to fame as a frequent commentator for CBS in the OJ Simpson trial.[5][6][7] She has written about the ethics of being a television commentator.[8][9]

She has been a legal commentator for CBS, CNN, ABC, NBC and NPR. She has commented on a wide range of high-publicity cases, including the O.J. Simpson murder trial, the Rodney King beating trial, the Menendez murder trials, the Michael Jackson molestation case, the Scott Peterson murder trial, the Bernard Madoff investigation, the Clinton impeachment, the Robert Blake murder trial, the trial of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, the prosecution of Anna Nicole Smith’s physicians, UCI Medical Scandal, the Michelle Carter murder trial, and the prosecution of Dr. Conrad Murray.

gollark: If not more.
gollark: The 4 is probably 8 times as powerful.
gollark: They should just not have notches. It's a stupid idea. Make the displays more expensive, add a tiny bit of irritatingly sized screen space, make programming for your stuff harder. Why do it? *Why*?
gollark: Well, it doesn't say which there.
gollark: Some are even good!

References
  1. https://www.martindale.com/los-angeles/california/laurie-lou-levenson-154827-a/
  2. California Birth Index
  3. "Q & A with Laurie Levenson". San Jose Mercury News. 2006-01-26. Retrieved 2009-02-12.
  4. Cohn, supra, p. 40.
  5. Kramer, Pamela (1995-04-11). "Lawyers not involved in O.J. trial still finding path to media stardom". Knight-Ridder/Tribune Media Service.
  6. Hunt, Darnell M. (1999). O.J. Simpson Facts and Fictions. Cambridge University Press. p. 139. ISBN 0-521-62468-1.
  7. Kurtz, Howard (1997). Hot Air: All Talk, All the Time. Basic Books. pp. 225. ISBN 0-465-03074-2.
  8. Erwin Chemerinsky & Laurie Levenson, The Ethics of Being a Commentator, 69 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1303 (1996)
  9. Cohn, Marjorie; David Dow (1998). Cameras in the Courtroom: Television and the Pursuit of Justice (2 ed.). McFarland. pp. 153. ISBN 0-7864-0502-3.
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