Biography
Professor Ariana R. Levinson is the Frost Brown Todd Professor of Law at the Brandeis School of Law. Her teaching and scholarship focus on labor and employment law and practical legal skills. She was honored with the University of Louisville’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2019 and received the inaugural Brandeis School of Law Teacher of the Year Award in 2024–25.
Professor Levinson is a fellow at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations’ Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing. She has published extensively on arbitration and labor issues, including six articles on labor arbitration, a book chapter on employment arbitration, and co-authorship of Principles of Arbitration Law (West) and Arbitration Advocacy (NITA). She is also co-author of Understanding Labor Law and lead author of a forthcoming Lexis treatise on Kentucky employment law (2025), co-written with colleagues Will Hilyerd and Joe Dunman.
Active in national and professional networks, she serves as a reviewer for the American Business Law Journal and the Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, is a member of the Scholars Strategy Network and the Cooperative Professionals Guild, and is faculty liaison to the Peggy Browning Fund. She also advises the mock arbitration team and the Wagner moot court team.
Before joining the Brandeis faculty, Professor Levinson taught at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and UCLA School of Law. She clerked for Judge John G. Davies of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and for Justice Myra C. Selby of the Indiana Supreme Court. She also practiced labor law, including serving as a fellow in the AFL-CIO Legal Department.
A graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, where she was contributing editor of the Michigan Law Review and received the Robert S. Feldman Labor Law Award, Professor Levinson is admitted to practice in Indiana and California.
Research Interests
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Degrees and Certifications
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, 1993-1996