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Professor Jeremy Levitt comes to FIU from DePaul University College
of Law, where he was an Assistant Professor of Law and Director
of the Center on International Law, Policy and Africa. During the
summer of 2005, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Research
Center for International Law at Cambridge University. Dr. Levitt
is a public international lawyer, political scientist, and Africanist
with expertise and publications in the law of the use of force,
human rights law, international organizations, democratization,
African politics, state dynamics and regional collective security.
Professor Levitt has demonstrated a talent for teaching, passion
for legal and multidisciplinary scholarship and strong commitment
to public service. In the past five years since entering the academy,
Dr. Levitt has authored two books, and co-authored a law review
volume, in addition to several law review and other articles. His
latest book, The Evolution of Deadly Conflict in Liberia: From
‘Paternaltarianism’ to State Collapse, has been
praised as “original” and the “definitive work
on the causes of Liberia’s cycle of deadly conflict”
by noted political scientists and international lawyers. Professor
Levitt earned his B.A. at Arizona State University, his J.D. at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his Ph.D. in International
Studies at the University of Cambridge, St. John’s College,
where he served as Managing Editor of the Cambridge Review of
International Affairs. While earning his Ph.D., Dr. Levitt
served as an International Affairs Fellow, Center for International
Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland-College
Park. Professor Levitt has traveled, researched or worked in twenty-two
African countries. He has, among other things, worked as a diplomatic
trainee with the State Department, Bureau for African Affairs, in
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and as a legal aide to the Constitutional
Assembly of the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa during
the country's constitutional making process. Dr. Levitt served as
a Special Assistant to the Managing Director for Global Human and
Social Development, The World Bank Group; Consultant, The World
Bank Group, Directorate-Operational Policy and Country Systems and
The World Bank Institute; Technical Expert, International Commission
on Intervention and State Sovereignty; and Technical Expert, UN
High Commission for Refugees. Dr. Levitt is a Term Member of the
New York-based Council on Foreign Relations, the US' premier think
tank on world affairs, and a Patron of the American Society of International
Law (ASIL). He has been a frequent source for the national and international
media, including, among others, Fox-News Live, BET Nightly News,
National Public Radio and the Chicago-Tribune, and is a regular
contributor to the Chicago Sun-Times. Dr. Levitt is a sought after
speaker in the United States and abroad. He teaches the Introduction
to International and Comparative Law, International Human Rights
and the International Law of the Use of Force and Armed Conflict
courses.
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