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Published on: 3/10/2007
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Marcia Levy is a Clinical Professor of Law and the Assistant Dean for Skills at Hofstra University School of Law, having overall responsibility for developing and teaching skills courses and supervising the externship program.Prior to teaching at Hofstra, Professor Levy was the Director of the University of Denver Clinical Program and before that she was a Clinical Law Professor at Rutgers , Newark.At Rutgers, she was the first Director of the Eric Neisser Public Interest Program and created and taught in the intensive skills program.She is a former assistant federal defender in the Eastern District of New York, former staff attorney for the Legal Aid Society's Prisoners' Rights Project, and former assistant public defender at the Metropolitan Public Defender's Office in Portland, Oregon.She has done extensive work in international arenas to help to develop clinical legal education and trial skills.Levy served as the clinical law specialist in the Moscow, Russia office of the American Bar Association Central and East Europe Law Initiative (ABA CEELI), and was the Associate
Director of Columbia Law School's Public Interest Law Initiative in Transitional Societies.She has traveled extensively to work with law faculties and lawyers to develop clinical legal education or trial skills, in places as diverse as China, Mongolia and the Balkans.Levy is the author of a chapter on the development of clinical legal education in the United States in the Clinical Law Textbook (in Russian), published by ABA CEELI; and contributed to a chapter on clinical legal education in PILI's Handbook on Public Interest Law.Levy frequently comments on legal issues on CNN, CNBC, and Court TV.Levy earned a B.S. from SUNY at Albany and a J.D. from Lewis and Clark College, Northwestern School of Law.Levy is a teacher, program director and Public Service Education Director for NITA.