A. Leo Levin

A. Leo Levin (January 9, 1919 – November 24, 2015) was an American legal scholar who was the Leon Meltzer Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Early life and education Levin was born in New York City to Issaachar and Minerva Hilda (Shapiro) Levin, and grew up in Trenton, New Jersey, His father was an Orthodox rabbi and Mizrachi leader. He was Jewish. He and his wife Doris (née Feder) had two sons, Allan and Jay.

Levin earned a B.A. from Yeshiva College in 1939, where he was the editor-in-chief of The Commentator and president of the Yeshiva College Student Council. He subsequently received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1942, where he was an editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

Career During World War II he was a first lieutenant in the United States Air Force from 1942 to 1946 in Europe. Decades later, in the 1990s, he returned there to teach.

Levin was the Director of the Federal Judicial Center from 1977 to 1987.

Levin died at 96 years of age. The annual A. Leo Levin Award for Excellence in an Introductory Course was established in 2002 at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in his honor.