Marc A. Levin is an American attorney who serves as director of the Center for Effective Justice and the

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initiative at the

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in Austin, Texas. An advocate for conservative criminal justice reform, he co-founded Right on Crime in 2010.

Biography

In 1999, Levin graduated with honors from the

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with a B.A. in Plan II Honors and Government. He was a student columnist for

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and in that and other roles was involved in freedom of speech and political controversies as a student. In 2002, Levin received his J.D. with honors from the University of Texas School of Law. Levin served as a law clerk to Judge Will Garwood on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the

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and Staff Attorney at the

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. Levin then joined the Texas Public Policy Foundation. He co-founded the Foundation's "influential"

think tank in 2010. Levin was number 25 on ''

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's'' The Politico 50 in 2014. ''

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'' called Levin "one of the nation's leading advocates of conservative criminal-justice reform."

References

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