Gain insight and inspiration from Loyola University Law School Professor Laurie Levenson — also the Founding Director of the Loyola Project for the Innocent, the Loyola Center for Ethical Advocacy, and the Fidler Institute on Criminal Justice, and Senior Faculty for Loyola's Journalist Law School. Professor Levenson teaches Constitutional law, Criminal Law and Ethical Lawyering, among many other subjects. She's also a frequent TV and radio commentator on legal topics, including Supreme Court decisions.

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Professor Levenson has also been a visiting professor at UCLA School of Law and USC Law School,  and a D&L Straus distinguished visiting professor at Pepperdine School of Law. She received her AB degree at Stanford University and her JD degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law. While in law school, Levenson was chief articles editor of the UCLA Law Review. After graduation, she served as law clerk to the Honorable James Hunter III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. In 1981, she joined the United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of California in Los Angeles, where she practiced as a trial and appellate lawyer and served as Assistant Chief of the Criminal Division. Levenson joined the Loyola faculty in 1989 and served as Loyola's Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 1996 to 1999.

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In 2019, she and Judge Sandra Klein co-founded Girl Scout Troop 1085, a troop for girls experiencing homelessness. 

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