Ariana R. Levinson
Assistant Professor of Law
- E-mail: a.levinson@louisville.edu
- Phone: 502-852-0794
- Fax: 502-852-0862
- Office: 285
Ariana Levinson joined the University of Louisville School of Law as a visiting assistant professor in 2007. At the close of 2008, she was invited to join the faculty as an assistant professor of law. Prior to teaching at Louisville Law, Levinson taught at USC Gould School of Law and at UCLA School of Law. Levinson clerked for the Honorable John G. Davies (United States District Court, Central District of California) and for the Honorable Myra C. Selby (Supreme Court of Indiana) and practiced labor law, including serving as a fellow for the AFL-CIO's Legal Department.
Levinson graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was on the Law Review.
Levinson's teaching and research interests are in Labor Law; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Lawyering Skills; Employment Law; Employment Discrimination; Trial Advocacy; Evidence; Contracts; and Civil Procedure.
She is admitted to practice in Indiana and California.
Courses Taught
Labor Law
Basic Legal Skills
Publications
Industrial Justice: Privacy Protection for the Employed, Cornell J.L. & Pub. Pol'y (forthcoming 2009)
Lawyering Skills Principles and Methods Offer Insight as to Best Practices for Arbitration, 60 Baylor L. Rev. 1 (2008)
Lawyers as Problem-Solvers One Meal at a Time: A Review of Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, 15 Widener L. Rev. (forthcoming 2008)
Co-authored, Editorial, Employees Deserve Free Choice, The Courier-Journal, March 26, 2009, at A9.
Editing Tips for the Busy Attorney (forthcoming in Kentucky Bench & Bar)
Questioning the D.C. Circuit; Harmonizing Board Precedent: Why Mere Presence of an Organizer Should Not Invalidate a Board Election, Casenote, 7 U. Pa. J. Lab. & Emp. L. 463 (2005)
Neither Prophets of Doom nor Facile Optimism, Rev. Radical Pol. Econ., 25(2) June 1993, at 132
Contributing Editor, Developing Labor Law 2001, 2002, 2003 Cumulative Supplements
Presentations
"Effective Strategies in Arbitration," Kentucky Legislative Research Commission Seminar, Capitol Building, Frankfort, June 2009
"Ex Parte Communication and Confidentiality Issues with Organizational Clients," Kentucky Legislative Research Commission Seminar, Capitol Building, Frankfort, June 2009
"Industrial Justice: Privacy Protection for the Employed," Central States Law School Association Annual Conference, SIU Law School, October 2009
"Legal Ethics in the Employment Law Context: Who is the Client?" 25th Annual Carl A. Warns Jr. Labor & Employment Law Institute, May 2008
"Lawyering Skills, Principles and Methods Offer Insight as to Best Practices for Arbitration," University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law Faculty Workshop Series, January 2008
University and Community Service
Faculty Advisor, American Bar Association Arbitration Competition
Co-faculty Advisor, Wagner National Labor & Employment Law Moot Court Competition
Faculty Liaison, Peggy Browning Fund
Carl A. Warns Labor and Employment Law Institute, Planning Committee, November 2007 -- present
Legal Writing Institute, Committee on Cooperation Among Clinical, Pro Bono, and Legal Writing Faculty, July 2007 -- present, chair, May 2008 -- present
Assistant Editor, The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute, February 2009 -- present