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Justin Levinson

Editorial Director, The Lens

Justin is a law professor at the University of Hawaii, and an expert in the field of implicit bias and the law. His scholarship, which regularly employs experimental social science methodology, has appeared in the NYU Law Review, Yale Law Journal Forum, UCLA Law Review, and Duke Law Journal, among others, and has been cited by the United States Supreme Court. He has lectured and taught courses globally, including in Eastern and Western Europe, East and Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Middle East. Justin previously practiced law at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, California. He has served as a Visiting Scholar at Nagoya University, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Beijing University, and as a Fellow at the Culture and Cognition Lab at UC Berkeley. He regularly teaches courses in criminal law, business law, and law and psychology.

Building Community-Based Emergency Response System

Executive Summary Though police officers are neither medical professionals nor social workers, cities and counties across the country routinely send armed law enforcement officers to respond to emergency calls for help when a person is experiencing a mental or behavioral health crisis. This makes as little sense as sending a social worker into a home […]

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