Kenyon College, B.A.
University of Pennsylvania, J.D.
Professor Robert J. Levy is an internationally known scholar in the areas of family law and of children and the law. He teaches family law, divorce negotiation, criminal law, and a criminal law sentencing workshop for visiting judges and students funded by the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation. In 1989, he became the first Dorsey & Whitney Professor of Law. He also was the Julius E. Davis Professor of Law for 1984-85. In 1996, he received the William L. Prosser Professorship at the Law School.
Professor Levy received a B.A. degree from Kenyon College. He graduated, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was a Senior Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. He joined the Law School faculty in 1959, after serving as a trial attorney for the Department of Justice.
He was the Ida Beam Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa Law School in 1979, a visiting distinguished scholar at Brooklyn Law School in 1988, and a summer visitor at University of Texas School of Law in 1969. He has visited at the St. Louis University Law School, has been a visiting scholar at the American Bar Foundation, a visiting lecturer at Fudan University Law School, People's Republic of China, and at Uppsala University in Sweden. In 1967-68, he was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in California and, in 1978, a lecturer at the Seminar on American Law and Legal Institutions in Austria. From 1967 to 1970, Professor Levy was the Reporter for the Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act.
He is a member of the American Law Institute, an advisor to the Institute's Project on Domestic Relations, a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and a member of the Council of the American Bar Association's Family Law Section. He is an Advisor to the committee revising the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act.
Legal and Mental Health Perspectives on Child Custody Law: A Deskbook for Judges (1998).
Team-Teaching of Substantive Law and Practice Skills in Substantive Law Contexts (1996) (with Robert E. Keeton).
Statutory Supplement to Cases and Materials on Family Law (3d ed. 1985).
Cases and Materials on Family Law (1st ed. 1966, 2d ed. 1973, 3d ed. 1976 & Supps. 1979 & 1980, 4th ed. 1985) (with Caleb Foote & Frank Sander).
Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (1981) (with Caleb Foote).
Standards Relating to Rights of Minors (1980) (with Barry C. Feld).
Interstate Custody and the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act (1978).
New Minnesota Divorce Act (1978).
Marriage Dissolution and Separation: Tax Aspects and Other Selected Topics (1977) (with Frank Sander).
A.B.A.-I.J.A. Juvenile Justice Standards Relating to Rights of Minors (1977) (with Barry C. Feld).
Statutory Appendix to Cases and Materials on Family Law (1976) (with Frank Sander & Caleb Foote).
Teaching Notes for Cases and Materials on Family Law (1976) (with Caleb Foote) (1974).
Cases and Materials on Social Welfare and the Individual (1971) (with Thomas Proctor Lewis & Peter Martin).
Uniform Family Code: Final Report (1970).
Uniform Marriage and Divorce Legislation: A Preliminary Analysis (1969).
Selected Materials on Family Law: Custody, the Unwed Mother, Adoption, Parental Neglect (1964).
Articles
Memoir of An Academic Lawyer: Hague Convention Theory Confronts Practice, 29 Fam. L.Q. 171 (1995).
Expert Testimony in Child Sexual Abuse Cases: Effects of Expert Evidence Type and Cross- Examination, 18 L. & Hum. Behav. 653 (1994) (with Margaret Bull Kovera, Eugene Borgida & Steven Penrod).
Marriage, Divorce and Property: Revolution; Partnership Approach Led to Major Changes, 16 Nat'l L. J. Nov. 29, 1993, at 12.
Rights and Responsibilities for Extended Family Members? (Special Conference Issue: Family Law for the Next Century), 27 Fam. L.Q. 191 (1993).
Introduction to Special Issue on Divorce Practice and Procedure, 26 Fam. L.Q. 1 (1992).
A Reminiscence About the Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act-Some Reflections About Its Critics and Its Policies, (Symposium on Family Law), 1991 B.Y.U.L. Rev. 43.
An Introduction to Divorce-Property Issues, 23 Fam. L.Q. 147 (1989).
Supporting the Aged: The Problem of Family Responsibility, An Aging World: Dilemmas and Challenges for Law and Social Policy (1989).
Using "Scientific" Testimony to Prove Child Sexual Abuse: The Dorsey & Whitney Professorship Lecture, 23 Fam. L.Q. 383 (1989).
Some Child-For-Money Trades Are Legal, 121 N.J. L. J., Feb. 18, 1988, at 30.
Custody Investigations as Evidence in Divorce Cases, 21 Fam. L.Q. 149 (1987).
Remarriage Following Divorce: Stressors and Well Being of Custodial and Noncustodial Parents, 7 J. Fam. Issues 405 (1986) (with Buehler, Hogan & Robinson).
Custody Investigation in Divorce Cases, 4 Am. B. Found. Res. J. 713 (1985).
Custody Investigation in Divorce Cases: The New York Law Revision Proposal in Perspective, 19 Colum. L. J. & So. Prob. 485 (1985).
Comment, The Pearson-Thoennes Study and on Mediation, 17 Fam. L.Q. 525 (1984).
Bigamy, Encyclopedia of Criminal Law and Criminology (1982).
Abortion, Adoption, Alimony, and Divorce, Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia (1981).
Rights of Parents in Proceedings of the Conference on Child Advocacy, 1976 B.Y.U.L. Rev. 693 (1976) (edited by Jack C. Weston).
Status Offenses and the Status of Children's Rights: Do Children Have the Legal Right to Be Incorrigible?, 1976 B.Y.U.L. Rev. 605 (1976).
The Organization and Management of Law and Social Sciences Research, 52 N. C. L. Rev. 120 (1974) (with Julia A. Fulton, Winslow Christian & Henry H. Rowan).
Introduction (Symposium on the Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act), 18 S.D. L. Rev. 53 (1973).
Comments on the Legislative History of the Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act, 7 Fam. L.Q. 405 (1973).
Abortion-Social and Legal Aspects, Encyclopedia Britannica (1969).
Legislative Reform of Child Custody Adjudication: An Effort to Rely on Social Science Data in Formulating Legal Policies, 4 L. & Soc'y. Rev. 167 (with Phoebe C. Ellsworth).
Protecting the Child and Preserving "Family Privacy": Toward a New Approach to Juvenile Court Jurisdiction, Child Care in Health and Disease (1968) (edited by Albert Dorfman).
Family Law & Welfare Policies: the Case for "Dual Systems", 54 Calif. L. Rev. 748 (1966) (with Thomas Lewis).
Protecting the Mentally Retarded: An Empirical Survey and Evaluation of the Establishment of State Guardianship in Minnesota, 49 Minn. L. Rev. 821 (1965).
Perilous Necessity: Non-Legal Materials in a Family Law Course, 3 J. Fam. L. 138 (1963).
Book Reviews
24 Fam. L.Q. 305 (1990) (reviewing John Devitt Gregory, The Law of Equitable Distribution (1989)).
