BRIAN LEVIN
BRIAN LEVIN
Brian Levin is an attorney and leading authority on bias violence, who has been active in the field since 1986. He is currently Associate Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Klanwatch Project. Mr. Levin is also a member of President Clinton's Domestic Policy Council Interagency Working Camp of Intercommunal Violence and the legal consultant and master instructor for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center's hate/bias training project. He was previously a visiting scholar in the independent Center for the Study of Ethnic and Racial Violence. He has testified before Congress, met with Attorney General Janet Reno and federal legislators and staff to discuss national policy on bias violence. He regularly consults with major civil rights, victim rights, and gay advocacy groups and is widely cited in the field. His research services, speaking engagements, publications and legal and policy work is provided free of charge.
A former New York City Police Officer, Mr. Levin participated in anti-narcotic operations, community patrols, and he joint FBI-NYPD anti-vice "Project Martin." He was award citations for his academic achievement and an Excellent Police Duty Medal for effecting a bribery arrest.
Mr. Levin Graduated, Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude, with Honors in History (Civil Rights) from the University of Pennsylvania. A alumnus of Stanford Law School, he received the Block Civil Liberties Award by the law faculty for distinguished written work in the area of civil rights. The Journal of Intergroup Relations and the National Association of Human Rights Workers awarded him the J. Mantled Tidings Award for best article during the 1993-94 publishing year. He was also nominated for the national award given by the National Institute Against Prejudice and Violence for his work on bias crimes. Mr. Levin was a 1993-1994 White House Fellowship Regional Finalist. He was served as a judicial intern to the Administrative Assistant to the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court and as legal intern, Specializing in Civil rights , to Chief Judge A. Leon Higgonbotham if the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Mr. Levin was previously associated with the law firm of Irell & Manella in Newport Beach, California. Mr. Levin has been recognized for his numerous contributions in the area of bias crimes and his extensive work on behalf of civic organizations as well as state, federal and local governments.
His first study, Black, Racial Bias Crimes and the Criminal Response was awarded a Nassau Fund research grant and was used by the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary in the promulgation of the Federal Hate Crimes Statistics Act. That report was one of the first to quantitatively show who commits hate crimes, their violent nature, and how these incidents can explode into numerous other crimes across communities. A subsequent article by Mr. Levin, Bias Crimes; A Theoretical and Practical Overview, recently published in the Stanford Law & Policy Review has been used throughout the nation by government officials and was recently cited by all fifty state attorneys general. Mr. Levin responsible for coordinating a nationwide coalition on eleven government agencies and civil rights groups with signed on to two emial briefs in the Mitchell case. He is also a principal author of those briefs, which brought numerous studies to the Court's attention. These studies were subsequently relied on by the Court in a unanimous decision upholding the validity of hate crime laws. His research has also been approvingly cited by numerous Courts, government agencies and civil rights groups.
Mr. Levin is 31 years old, single and resides in Montgomery, Alabama.
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