Justin Levitt
Associate Professor of Law
Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-7417
Fax: (213) 380-3769
E-mail:justin.levitt@lls.edu
919 Albany Street
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
Educational and Professional Background
BA, magna cum laude, Harvard College
JD/MPA, magna cum laude, Harvard Law School / Harvard Kennedy School
Levitt is a national expert in election law, with particular focus on election administration and redistricting. He has published in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law and Policy Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, and the peer-reviewed Election Law Journal, among others. Levitt has testified before committees of the U.S. Senate and several state legislative bodies, and his research has been cited extensively in the media and the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He also maintains the website All About Redistricting, tracking the process of state and federal redistricting around the country, including litigation.
Levitt has served in various capacities for several presidential campaigns, including most recently as the National Voter Protection Counsel in 2008, helping to run an effort ensuring that tens of millions of citizens could vote and have those votes counted. Before joining the faculty of Loyola Law School, he was counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, for five years. He has also worked as in-house counsel to the country's largest independent voter registration and engagement operation, and at several nonprofit civil rights and civil liberties organizations.
Levitt served as a law clerk to the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He holds a law degree and a masters degree in public administration from Harvard University, and was an articles editor for the Harvard Law Review.
When Mistakes Matter: Election Error and the Dynamic Assessment of Materiality
Motive Matters: Reasserting Public Action in the Public Interest
The Legal Context for Scientific Redistricting Analysis, in NEW TECHNOLOGY AND THE OLD PROBLEMS OF REDISTRICTING (forthcoming 2011).
Redistricting and the West: the Legal Context, in REAPPORTIONMENT AND REDISTRICTING IN THE WEST (forthcoming 2012).
Novel (and Not-so-Novel) Alternatives to Legislative Redistricting, in AMERICA VOTES! A GUIDE TO MODERN ELECTION LAW AND VOTING RIGHTS (2d ed., forthcoming 2012).
Fault and the Murkowski Voter: A Reply to Flanders, 28 Alaska L. Rev. 41 (2011).
Weighing the Potential of Citizen Redistricting, 44 Loyola L.A. L. Rev. 101 (2011).
Confronting the Impact of Citizens United, 29 Yale L. & Pol’y Rev. 217 (2010).
Long Lines at the Courthouse: Pre-Election Litigation of Election Day Burdens, 9 Election L.J. 19 (2010) (peer-reviewed).
A Citizen’s Guide to Redistricting (Brennan Center for Justice, 2d ed. 2010).
Seeing Double Voting: An Extension of the Birthday Problem, 7 Election L.J. 111 (2008) (co-authored with Michael P. McDonald) (peer-reviewed).
Taking the "Re" Out of Redistricting: State Constitutional Provisions on Redistricting Timing, 95 Geo. L.J. 1247 (2007) (co-authored with Michael P. McDonald).
Developments in the Law—International Criminal Law (pt. 2): The Promises of International Prosecution, 114 Harv. L. Rev. 1957 (2001).
Constitutional Law, Law of the Political Process, Criminal Procedure