Leslie Levin

Leslie Levin is a Professor of Law and the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Connecticut School of Law. She teaches Evidence, Legal Profession, and Media & the Law.  Dean Levin has taught at New York University Law School and as a Fulbright Specialist at the University of Haifa.  She has also been a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. Her scholarship focuses on the legal profession, ethical decisionmaking, and lawyer discipline. She is the co-editor (with Lynn Mather) of Lawyers in Practice: Ethical Decisionmaking in Context (University of Chicago Press 2012).

Dean Levin is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and received her law degree from Columbia Law School. Following graduation, she served as a law clerk for Judge Robert W. Sweet in the Southern District of New York. She worked at Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler, a New York law firm, where she represented media clients and engaged in commercial litigation. She served on the law firm's Ethics Committee and as Secretary to the Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. She has served on the Connecticut Bar Association's Task Force on the Future of the Legal Profession and the Connecticut Joint Task Force on Attorney Trustee Accounts.