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Justin D. Levinson |
Justin D. Levinson
BA, with distinction, University of Michigan 1996; J.D. University of California Los Angeles, 1999; LL.M. Harvard, 2004.
Professor Levinson joined the faculty in 2004. He teaches business law courses as well as Law and Psychology.
Prior to joining us, Professor Levinson practiced corporate and securities law at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, California, where he represented technology companies at various stages of development. He has served as Visiting Assistant Professor at Beijing University, and as a Fellow at the Culture and Cognition Lab at UC Berkeley.
Professor Levinson's research focuses on the intersection of psychology and the law, including empirical analysis of psychological concepts embedded in the law.
Teaching Areas:
Business Associations, Corporate Finance, High Growth Entrepreneurship, Law and Psychology, Legal Research and Writing
Recent and Forthcoming Publications:
Justin D. Levinson, Forgotten Racial Equality: Implicit Bias, Decision-Making and Misremembering, 57 Duke L.J. 345 (2007).
Justin D. Levinson, Culture, Cognitions and Legal Decision-Making, in (R. Sorrentino & S. Yamaguchi, eds) Handbook of Motivation and Cognition Across Cultures. Elsevier Press (forthcoming 2008).
Justin D. Levinson & Kaiping Peng, Valuing Cultural Differences in Behavioral Law and Economics, 5 ICFAI Journal of Behavioral Finance, 32 (2007).
Justin D. Levinson, Mentally Misguided: How State of Mind Inquiries Ignore Psychological Reality and Overlook Cultural Differences, 49 How. L. J. 1 (2005).
Justin D. Levinson, Suppressing the Expression of Community Values in Juries: How 'Legal Printing' Systematically Alters the Way People Think, 73 U. Cin. L.Rev. 1059 (2005).
Justin D. Levinson & Kaiping Peng, Different Torts for Differrent Cohorts: A Cultural Psychological Critique of Tort Law's Actual Cause and Foreseeability Inquiries, 13 So. Cal. Interdisc. L. J. 195 (2004).
Articles in Progress:
Justin D. Levinson, Implicit Bias and the Death Penalty,(for DePaul Law Review Symposium).
Justin D. Levinson & Kaiping Peng, Cultural Contracts: Business Transactions in Context.
