Jeremy Levitt

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About Jeremy Levitt

Dr. Levitt is an internationally recognized racial justice advocate, public intellectual, legal scholar, international lawyer, political scientist and global administrator with a rare combination of experiential and theoretical training and experiences, respectively. He is recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities in the international law and politics of Africa, and is a pioneering scholar-practitioner in international human rights law, conflict and peace studies, and transitional justice. Dr. Levitt is the Distinguished Professor of International Law at Florida A&M University and formerly served as Dean of Law and Vice-Chancellor's Chair at the University of New Brunswick (UNB). Between 2008-2012 he was associate dean for international programs and founding director of the Center for International Law and Justice at Florida A&M University. Dr. Levitt holds a Doctor of Philosophy 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.Dr. Levitt is a Fulbright scholar. In 2012, he served as the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Human Rights and Social Justice at the Human Rights Research and Education Center (HRREC) at the University of Ottawa. 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). Dr. Levitt was formally appointed 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.Dr. Levitt is an elected member of the American Law Institute, America’s foremost legal organization and a former member of the executive council and executive committee of the American Society of International Law.