PERSONAL
INFORMATION
Born August 22, 1951 in Erie, Pennsylvania.
EDUCATION
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL - A.B. (1972) University of Chicago, Chicago, IL - A.M. (1973) Boston University, Boston, MA - J.D. (1976) University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K. - D.Phil. (Ph.D.) (1981)
EMPLOYMENT
Professional Employment
2000 to present Principal, Levin & Associates Co., L.P.A. Cleveland, Ohio
1998 to 1999 Principal, Levin, Marmaros & Charms Co., L.P.A. Cleveland, Ohio
1983 to 1998 Principal, Nurenberg, Plevin, Heller & McCarthy Co., L.P.A. Cleveland, Ohio
Educational Employment
1982 to present Adjunct Professor of Law and Philosophy Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio
1997 to 1998 Adjunct Professor of Law Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Cleveland, Ohio
Other Employment
2000 to present Chairman, Think-A-Move, Ltd. Cleveland, Ohio
2000 to present Director and Treasurer Russia-United States Legal Education Foundation Cleveland, Ohio
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Legal Practice
Counsel in over 150 appellate cases, including approximately 10 Ohio Supreme Court cases and 25 United States Court of Appeals cases.
Tried more than two hundred cases, in front of juries, before the court, and in arbitration, including commercial, securities and U.C.C. cases, anti-trust, product liability, medical malpractice, intellectual property, partnership, automobile, civil rights cases, and contract disputes. Cases have been venued in both state and federal courts and located in Ohio, Colorado, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
Teaching
Taught Contracts, Professional Responsibility, Comparative Law, and Jurisprudence to students and in faculty seminars in both Law Schools and Philosophy Departments.
Other Activities
Special Counsel to Ohio Attorney General, Anti-Trust Division (1994-1997).
Member of Ohio State Bar Ethics Committee.
Lecturer at local, state, national and international conferences and seminars on various topics including, inter alia, contract theory, war crime trials, legal ethics, insurance law, bad faith, real estate transactions, law and literature, legal reasoning, legal theory, trial practice, the role of judges, and the legal profession.
Member, Harvard Law School Consortium for the Study of Plaintiffs' Lawyering.
USIA Professor of Law, University of Volgograd (1996).
USIA Professor of Law, University of Novgorad (2000).
Life Member, Eighth Judicial Conference.
LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP (Partial)
Books
How Judges Reason (Peter Lang, 1992)
Revolutions, Institutions, Law (Peter Lang, 1998)
Tort Wars (Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Articles
"Justification and the Law," 32 Emory L. J. 987 (1983)
"The Balance Theory of Contracts: Seeking Justice in Voluntary Obligations," 29 McGill L. J. (Revue de droit de McGill) 24 (1983)
"The Concept of the Judicial Decision," 33 C.W.R. L. Rev. 208 (1983)
"Constitutional Future of Statutes of Repose," Ohio Trial (1988)
"Striking the Balance in Contract Theory," 40 Cleveland State L. Rev. 19 (1992)
"The Possibility of Natural Law," 12 Vera Lex 1 (1992)
"Answer to a Critic," 40 Federal Bar News & Journal 664 (1993)
"Charles Dickens and the Uses of History: A Salute to Holdsworth," 13 Vera Lex 31 (1993)
"Lear's Final Argument Or More Sinned Against Than Sinning: Pride, Law and Justice Among the Ancients," in The Eyes of Justice (R. Kevelson, ed., 1993)
"The Action in the Transaction: Life Around the Contractual Edges," in Flux, Complexity, and Illusion (R. Kevelson, ed., 1992) reprinted in 58 In Brief 3 (1993)
"An Uncommon Lawyer," 34 Washburn L. Rev. 225 (1995)
"The Paradox of Jurisprudence," in Synthesis in Diversity (R. Kevelson, ed., 1996)
"Impersonal Responsibility: Judging Institutions Over Time," in Law and The Conflict of Ideologies (R. Kevelson, ed., 1996)
"The Measure of Law and Equity: Tolerance in Shakespeare's Vienna," in Law and Literature: Perspectives and Pedagogy (B. Rockwood, ed., 1997)
"Moral Mediocrity," in Essays in Philosophy and Language (W. Pencak, ed., 1997)
"Moral Maturity," in 6 Health Law Matrix 219 (1996).
"Two Concepts of Contract," in States, Citizens and Questions of Significance (J. Brigham, ed., 1997)
"Tort Wars," in 39 Tort Trial & Ins. Prac. L. J. 869 (2004)
"Representing Abused Children: The Changing Law" in Cleveland Bar Journal (Dec. 2004)
"Representing Abused Children: Practice and Procedure" in Cleveland Bar Journal (Jan. 2005)
CLE Booklets
How to Make Sense Out of UMI Law (CWRU/CLE, 1988)
Litigating Bad Faith Insurance Claims in Ohio (CWRU/CLE, 1988)
The Liability Insurer's Duties to Defend and Settle (CWRU/CLE, 1990)
Scholastic Writings
"Justice Holmes and Legal Education" (Boston Univ. Law School Comm. Address, 1976)
The Logic of Adjudication: An Analysis of the Grounds for Judicial Assertion (doctoral thesis, Bodleian Library, Oxford University, 1981)
"The Fallacy of Legal Theory" (address at Queen's University Law School, Kingston, Ontario, 1993)
BAR ADMISSIONS
Federal: U.S. Supreme Court (1985); U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Cir. (1983), 11th Cir. (1984); 10th Cir. (1995); 5th Cir. (2000); U.S. District Court, N. D. of Ohio (1983), N. D. of Texas (2000).
State: Massachusetts (1977); Ohio (1983); Pennsylvania (1988)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Cleveland and American Bar Associations; Cleveland and Ohio Academies of Trial Lawyers; American Philosophical Association; American International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy; The Bentham Society.