Jeremy I Levitt
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Dr. Jeremy Levitt is the distinguished professor of international law. A former Fulbright
Research Chair in Human Rights and Social Justice at the Human Rights Research and
Education Center, University of Ottawa, he was the first Black male to serve as a
law dean in Canada and the first African American to serve as dean in Canada in any
discipline. He formerly served as associate dean for international programs and founding
director of the Center for International Law and Justice at FAMU.
Dr. Levitt is an internationally recognized public intellectual, legal scholar, international
lawyer, political scientist and global administrator with a rare combination of experiential
and theoretical training and experiences. He is recognized as one of the world’s foremost
authorities in international law and politics of Africa and is a pioneering scholar-practitioner
in international human rights law, conflict and peace studies, transitional justice,
and racial justice studies. He is the author and editor of seven books and numerous
scholarly works.
Dr. Levitt has extensive field expertise in Africa, Europe and the Caribbean. In 2016,
he was a Senior External Scholar at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training
Center in Accra, Ghana. In 2009-2010, Louise Arbour, former UN High Commission for
Human Rights nominated him to serve as Head of the International Technical Advisory
Committee (ITAC) of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of the Republic of Liberia
(TRC) during the country’s civil war. He was appointed to this position by Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf,
President of the Republic of Liberia and Africa’s first elected female president.
In 2005, he was a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Center for International Law
at Cambridge University. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute.
Dr. Levitt holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Politics and International Studies from
the University of Cambridge, a Doctor of Law from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Arizona State University.
- American Politics
- Community, Police Relations
- Human Rights
- International Law
- International Relations
- Race Politics
- Racial Justice
- Second Amendment
- Social Justice
- Violent Extremism
- War and Peace
- Doctor of Philosophy in Politics and International Studies
University of Cambridge - Juris Doctor
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Bachelor of Arts in Political Science
Arizona State University
- Distinguished Professor of International Law - Present
- Visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht center for International Law at Cambridge University
- Elected member of the American Law Institute
- Senior External Scholar at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Center
- Head of the International Technical Advisory Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission and the Republic of Liberia
- Founding Director of the Center for International Law and Justice at FAMU
- Author and editor of seven books and numerous scholarly works
- 2023 Telly Award for excellence in broadcasting
- Constitutional Law l
- Constitutional Law ll
