- Legal Research and Writing
- Legal Drafting
Education
- BA, with highest honors, University of California, Berkeley
- MSW, University of California, Los Angeles
- JD, University of California, Los Angeles
Background
Professor Levin is a graduate of the UCLA School of Law, Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, and the Department of Social Welfare, where she was an editor on the UCLA Law Review and earned membership in Order of the Coif. Professor Levin clerked for the Honorable Richard A. Paez of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit during 2002-2003. Before joining the Loyola faculty, she was on the faculty at Pepperdine University School of Law for eight years and Co-Director of the Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr. Judicial Clerkship Institute for five years. She taught Legal Research and Writing and Appellate Advocacy, and created and taught the Legal Research and Writing for Non-Lawyers course for the online Master of Legal Studies program. In 2019, Professor Levin earned the Pepperdine Waves of Excellence (Teaching) award. Before teaching, she was an associate at Arnold & Porter LLP, specializing in civil commercial and trademark litigation.
Publications
- Grammar, Editing, and Writing Tech Tools: The Teaching Tool You’ve Been Looking For?, 28 Persps. 51 (2020) (with Joe Regalia)
- The Feedback Feeding Frenzy: Some Thoughts About Doing Feedback Differently, 27 Persps. 60 (2019) (with Joe Regalia)
- Frozen in Time: Evaluating Class Action Settlements in the Face of Changes in the Law, 12 Class 460 (2011) (with Laurence J. Hutt)
- Fighting for Child Custody When Domestic Violence Is at Issue: Survey of State Laws, 48 Social Work 463 (2003) (with Linda Mills)
- Comment, Child Witnesses of Domestic Violence: How Should Judges Apply the Best Interests of the Child Standard in Custody and Visitation Cases Involving Domestic Violence, 47 UCLA L. Rev. 813 (2000)
Selected Presentations
- Perspectives on the Law Clerk Application Process, Ninth Circuit Opportunity & Equality Committee
Panelist, January 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVli7xHbCEc - Rising to the Mental Health Challenge
Empire State Legal Writing Conference, Fordham University School of Law, May 23, 2024, with Hilary Reed - Teaching a New Generation of Students: Seasoned Professors’ Ideas About What We May (Or May Not) Change in LRW
Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference, LMU Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, March 9, 2024, with Aimee Dudovitz and Katherine Lyons - Leveraging Popular Culture and Current Events in the Legal Writing Classroom
Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference, UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law, February 25, 2023, with Bob Brain, Stephanie Der, and Yan Slavinskiy - Taking Stock: Applying Lessons Learned from Emergency Online Teaching to ‘Normal Times’ Remote Education
Online & Hybrid Learning Pedagogy: Toward Defining Best Practices in Legal Education, University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, September 23, 2022, with Aimee Dudovitz and Hilary Reed