About Betsy Levin

Betsy Levin has taught courses in Constitutional Law and Educational Policy and the Law for nearly 40 years. She has served in a number of administrative positions, including Executive Vice President and Director of the Association of American Law Schools, and Dean of the University of Colorado School of Law. Prior to joining the University of Colorado, Professor Levin served as the first General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Education, having come to the Department from the faculty of Duke Law School, where she had taught for eight years. In recent years, she has been a visiting professor of law at the Universities of North Carolina, American, Georgetown, Howard, Baltimore, Puerto Rico, New York University, Nova Southeastern, and Chapman. Earlier government service includes her appointments to the Civil Rights Reviewing Authority of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and to the National Council for Educational Research of the National Institute of Education. Levin has more recently served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, and the National Association of Women Judges, as well as to several universities and law schools. Professor Levin's books, articles, and other publications address issues involving equal educational opportunity, education finance, the federal role in education, and the constitutional and statutory rights of teachers and students. Levin received her law degree from Yale Law School, clerked for a U.S. Court of Appeals judge on the Fourth Circuit, and then served as special assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, before joining the Urban Institute as its Director of Education Studies.