Professor

Kate

Levine

Kate Levine is a Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School. She teaches classes in Criminal Law,  Criminal Procedure, and Abolition.  Earlier in her career Professor Levine was an Assistant Professor of Law at St. John's University and a Visiting Assistant Professor at UC Irvine School of Law.  She also taught in the lawyering program at NYU School of Law. Professor Levine earned her B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard College and her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. She clerked for the Honorable Robert P. Patterson, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Levine was an Appellate Public Defender at Appellate Advocates. Prior to that, she was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore.

Levine's scholarship focuses on police prosecution and includes articles in the Columbia Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, the Georgetown Law Journal, and the Michigan Law Review, among others. Her teaching and research interests include criminal law, criminal procedure, policing, police and prison abolition, and the legal ethics of criminal lawyering.