{"id":150,"date":"2019-10-24T10:39:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T14:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.law.temple.edu\/events\/ross\/?page_id=150"},"modified":"2019-12-11T10:08:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T15:08:40","slug":"lev-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.law.temple.edu\/events\/ross\/lev-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2017 Edward Ross Lecture in Litigation | Presented By Stuart Lev"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2017 Edward Ross Lecture in Litigation<\/small>
Representing the Powerless
Presented By Stuart Lev<\/small><\/h1>\n

March 30, 2017<\/strong>
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
<\/strong>TEMPLE UNIVERSITY BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW
DUANE MORRIS LLP MOOT COURT ROOM<\/p>\n

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Stuart Lev<\/h2>\n

Stuart Lev is a career public defender \u2013 and proud of it.\u00a0 After graduating from the University of Michigan Law School, he worked as an appellate defender at the Michigan State Appellate Defender Office.\u00a0 After returning to Philadelphia in 1986, he joined the Defender Association of Philadelphia where he practiced as both a trial and appellate lawyer.\u00a0 In 1996, he became an Assistant Federal Defender in the Capital Habeas Unit of the Federal Community Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.\u00a0 He has helped win new trials and\/or re-sentencings for dozens of death-sentenced prisoners.<\/p>\n

Stuart has argued numerous cases in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, as well as in the Pennsylvania and Michigan state courts.\u00a0 In February 2016 he argued\u00a0Williams v.\u00a0 Pennsylvania<\/em>\u00a0in the United States Supreme Court, which ultimately ruled in his favor.\u00a0 That same year, he won national recognition as the Outstanding Assistant Federal Defender in a Capital Habeas Unit.<\/p>\n

Stuart was an Adjunct Professor at Villanova Law School, where he co-taught a course in death penalty litigation from 2004-2014.\u00a0 He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University, where he taught legal writing and appellate advocacy from 1990-1996.\u00a0He has been a faculty member in numerous training programs Pennsylvania and around the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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