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About Ariana R. Levinson

Professor Ariana Levinson's scholarship and teaching focus on labor and employment law issues and practical legal skills. Professor Levinson joined the University of Louisville Brandeis 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. She was promoted to professor in July 2016.
Professor Levinson received a Corey Rosen Research Fellowship from the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations for the 2012-13 academic year, and a Michael W. Huber Fellowship for the 2013-14 academic year. In conjunction with the fellowships, she published Founding Worker Cooperatives: Social Movement Theory and the Law in the Nevada Law Journal and is working on a research project about the Cincinnati Union Co-op Initiative. Her article What the Awards Tell Us about Labor Arbitration of Employment Discrimination Claims, published in the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform was selected by blind review by Vanderbilt Law School faculty for presentation at the Branstetter New Voices in Civil Justice Workshop in May 2012.
In addition to writing about worker ownership and arbitration, Professor Levinson has also written a number of articles about workplace technology and privacy. Her most recent publications on this topic include a book chapter in the Research Handbook on Electronic Commerce Law
Professor Levinson is the faculty liaison to the Peggy Browning Fund and a co-planner of the Warns-Render Labor and Employment Law Institute, an annual labor and employment law continuing legal education program. She coaches the mock arbitration team and advises the Wagner moot court team. She is a Reviewer for the American Business Law Journal. Professor Levinson is admitted to practice in Indiana and California.
Prior to teaching at Brandeis School of Law, Professor Levinson taught at USC Gould School of Law and at UCLA School of Law. She 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.
She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School. During law school, she served as a contributing editor on the Michigan Law Review and was awarded the Robert S. Feldman Labor Law Award for the most outstanding work in that field. She also received a 2014-15 faculty favorite award from the University of Louisville Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning.

Positions

August 2022 - Present Associate Dean for Intellectual Life, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
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Present Professor of Law, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
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2013 - 2016 Associate Professor, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
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2009 - 2013 Assistant Professor, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
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2007 - 2009 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
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2006 - 2007 Lecturer in Law, University of Southern California Law ‐ Law School
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2004 - 2006 Lecturer in Law, University of California - Los Angeles ‐ School of Law
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1999 - 2004 Associate, Holguin & Garfield ‐ Labor Law Firm
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1998 - 1999 Fellow, AFL-CIO Legal Department
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1997 - 1998 Law Clerk, United States District Courts ‐ Central District of California
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1996 - 1997 Law Clerk, Supreme Court of Indiana ‐ Honorable Myra C. Selby
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1995 Law Clerk, Kelman, Loria, Downing, Schneider, Detroit, Michigan & Simpson ‐ Civil Litigation Firm
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1995 Summer Associate, Bredhoff & Kaiser ‐ Labor Law Firm
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1994 Law Clerk, Klimist, McKnight, Sale, McClow, & Canzano ‐ Labor Law Firm
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Curriculum Vitae


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Grants

2018 - 2019 Dean’s Faculty Development Grant
University of Louisville
2018 Cooperative Consortium for Transdisciplinary Social Justice Research Grant
Cooperative Consortium for Transdisciplinary Social Justice Research
2018 Cooperative Consortium for Transdisciplinary Social Justice Research Grant
CCTSJR
2017 - 2018 Dean’s Faculty Development Grant
University of Louisville
2012 Jonanthan N. Helfat Research Grant
University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
2010 - 2011 Research Initiation Grant
University of Louisville
2010 Jonathan N. Helfat Research Grant
University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
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Professional Service and Affiliations

2007 - 2018 Co-chair, Carl A. Warns Labor and Employment Law Institute, Planning Committee
2016 - 2017 Chair, Louisville Food Co-op Steering Committee, Governance & Membership Committee
2012 Member, Minors on Campus Work Group
2011 - 2012 Co-faculty Adviser, Louisville Law Review
2008 - 2011 Evaluator, Central High School Essay Contest
2007 - 2010 Committee on Cooperation Among Clinical, Pro Bono,and Legal Writing Faculty, Legal Writing Institute
2008 - 2009 Planning Participant, Louisville Law Community Service Day
2008 - 2009 Brief Judge, Third Annual Constance Baker Motley National Competition in Constitutional Law
2008 Moot Court Judge, practice round for Wagner National Labor & Employment Law Moot Court Competition, Harlan Scholars
2002 - 2007 Arbitrator, Los Angeles Superior Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Program
2003 Litigation Attorney, Western Law Center for Disability Rights, Loyola Law School
2000 - 2003 Provided legal assistance to women seeking restraining orders, Domestic Violence Legal Services Project
Faculty Adviser, American Bar Association Arbitration Competition
Leadership Louisville, Class of 2010 Graduate
Law School Committee Service, Clerkships, Admissions, Experiential Learning, Reinstatement & Probation, Faculty Excellence
Faculty Adviser, Labor and Employment Law Society
Chair, Loan Repayment Assistance Program Committee
Member, Louisville Association for Community Economics, Governance & Membership Committee
Faculty Liaison, Peggy Browning Fund
Faculty Adviser, Wagner National Labor & Employment Law Moot Court Competition
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Honors and Awards

  • UCLA Professional Development Award
  • Faculty Favorite Nominee 2017-18, University of Louisville Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning
  • Faculty Favorite Nominee 2016-17, University of Louisville Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning
  • McDonald, Doll & Greenbaum Endowment Faculty Award
  • Thomas A. Ballentine Jr. Endowment Faculty Award
  • 2016 Research Incentive Award for publication of Solidarity on Social Media
  • Greenebaum Endowment Faculty Award
  • Faculty Favorite Nominee 2014-15, University of Louisville Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning
  • Barbara B. Lewis Faculty Award, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
  • Ferreri Faculty Fellowship, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
  • Michael W. Huber Research Fellowship, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations
  • Faculty Fellowship, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
  • Corey Rosen Research Fellowship, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations
  • Distinction and Recognition from the University of Louisville Office of the Ombuds as a Workplace Neutral Trained in 40 Hours of Such Skills and Technique
  • 2011 Jonathan N. Helfat Award for Legal Scholarship, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law

Education

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1996 JD, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor ‐ Law School
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1993 BA, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor ‐ Sociology
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Contact Information

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Publications (30)

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