Faculty

Marin K. Levy

Lecturing Fellow

M. Levy

Marin Levy's teaching and research interests include civil procedure, judicial behavior, judicial administration, health care law and policy, bioethics, and torts.     

Levy joined the Duke Law faculty in 2009, after serving as a clerk to Judge José A. Cabranes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  Prior to her clerkship, she was an associate at Jenner & Block, LLP in Washington, DC.

A 2007 graduate of the Yale Law School, Levy received an M.Phil in the History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine from the University of Cambridge in 2004. She earned a B.A. in Ethics, Politics, and Economics (concentration in Bioethics) and in English from Yale College in 2003, graduating cum laude with distinction in both majors.

Levy's publications include "Judicial Attention as a Scarce Resource: A Preliminary Defense of How Judges Allocate Time Across Cases in the Federal Courts of Appeals," 82 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2013), "The Mechanics of Federal Appeals: Uniformity and Case Management in the Circuit Courts," 61 Duke L. J. 315 (2011), and "The Costs of Judging Judges by the Numbers," 28 Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. 313 (2010) with Kate Stith & José A. Cabranes. Her current works in progress include "The Composition of Panels: Challenging the Randomness of Panel Assignment in the Federal Appellate Courts," "Volume-Centered Prudentialism," and Federal Courts Standards of Review: Appellate Court Review of District Court Decisions and Agency Actions (2nd ed.) with Harry T. Edwards and Linda A. Elliott.