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Mark A. Levin |
Mark A. Levin
BBA, high distinction, University of Michigan, 1980; JD, Yale Law School, 1983; LLM, University of Washington, 1990.
Professor Levin joined the faculty in January 1997 from the Law Department of Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. His interest in Japan began after his 1983 graduation from Yale Law School, when he traveled to Japan to work for an international law office in Tokyo.
From 1984 to 1986, he clerked for U.S. District Court Judge John C. Coughenour in Seattle, Washington, and then practiced in Seattle for five years as a corporate attorney, representing numerous Japanese clients. Professor Levin also earned an LL.M. from the University of Washington's Asian Law Program (Japanese Law Emphasis) in 1990.
In 1992, Professor Levin received the first of two grants for research in Japan, which enabled him to study at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Yokohama for one year, and Tokyo University Faculty of Law for a second year. He was then invited to Hokkaido to become the first non-Japanese given full status as a faculty member at the law department there, teaching a variety of subjects concerning American Law and advising graduate student researchers on related topics.
Professor Levin's scholarship includes research and writing on the regulation of smoking and tobacco enterprises in Japan, legal education in Japan, and the legal circumstances of race and indigenous peoples in Japan.
In April 2007, Governor Linda Lingle appointed Professor Levin to serve on the State of Hawai'i Tobacco Prevention and Control Trust Fund Advisory Board.
Teaching Areas:
International Business Transactions, Law & Society in Japan, Legal Research and Writing, Sales, U.S.-Japan Business Transactions
Recent and Forthcoming Publications:
Mark A. Levin, Japan's New Law Schools: Elite, Cautious, Regional, and Idealist, 62 Japanese Journal of Law and Society 139 (2005)
-Recent articles by Professor Levin available online-
