Professor Justin Levitt
Los Angeles, CA
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Harvard College
Harvard Kennedy School
Harvard Law School
Justin Levitt is a Professor of Law at LMU Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. He has also taught as a visiting faculty member at Caltech and at the Yale, UCLA, and USC law schools.
Professor Levitt served at the White House from 2021-22 as the inaugural Senior Policy Advisor for Democracy and Voting Rights. From 2015-17, he served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, helping to lead DOJ's work on voting rights and employment discrimination.
Before entering academia, he worked as in-house counsel to the country's largest independent voter engagement operation, and at several nonpartisan nonprofits; he also served several presidential campaigns, including as the National Voter Protection Counsel in 2008. He has advised and represented officials of both major political parties and neither, and those whose partisan preference he does not know, and has also represented individuals and organizations seeking to compel officials to comply with their obligations under state and federal law. Levitt clerked for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
