Justin D. Levinson

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Professor Justin D. Levinson  iis a leader in the field of implicit bias and the law and an expert in psychological decision-making in the legal system.  His scholarship, which regularly employs experimental social science methodology, has appeared in the NYU Law Review, UCLA Law Review, and Duke Law Journal, among others, and has been cited by the United States Supreme Court.  Professor Levinson served as lead editor of Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law, a volume that was published by Cambridge University Press in 2012 (co-edited by Robert J. Smith).  He has lectured, taught courses, and trained audiences globally, including in Eastern and Western Europe, East and Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Middle East. In 2008, Professor Levinson founded the Culture and Jury Project, an interdisciplinary and international research collaboration devoted to facilitating the study of human decision-making in the law.  He is currently collaborating with scholars in China, Japan, and Korea, as well as domestically in the United States.  Professor Levinson previously practiced law at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, California.  He has served as Visiting Assistant Professor at Beijing University, and as a Fellow at the Culture and Cognition Lab at UC Berkeley.  He regularly teaches Criminal law, Business Associations, Law and Psychology, High Growth Entrepreneurship, and has offered a seminar on Implicit Bias and the Law.
 
 
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