Ronald Levin

Ronald M. Levin is the William R. Orthwein Distinguished Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, where he joined the faculty in 1979 as assistant professor, became associate professor in 1980, full professor in 1985, Henry Hitchcock Professor in 2000, and assumed his current title in 2010. He served as Associate Dean for academic affairs from 1990 to 1993. Levin holds a B.A. magna cum laude with honors in political science from Yale University (1972) and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School (1975), where he was Article and Book Review Editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. Prior to academia, he clerked for the Honorable John C. Godbold on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (1975-1976) and practiced as an associate at Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan in Washington, D.C. (1976-1979).

Levin specializes in administrative law, publishing extensively on judicial review, rulemaking, regulatory reform, lobbying law, and legislative ethics. His books include State and Federal Administrative Law (5th ed. 2020, with Michael Asimow) and Administrative Law and Process in a Nutshell (6th ed. 2017, with Jeffrey S. Lubbers). Key articles are 'The APA and the Assault on Deference' (106 Minnesota Law Review 125, 2021), 'Rulemaking and the Guidance Exemption' (70 Administrative Law Review 263, 2018)—recipient of the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice's 2019 Annual Award for Scholarship—'Administrative Procedure and Judicial Restraint' (129 Harvard Law Review Forum 338, 2016), and 'The REINS Act: Unbridled Impediment to Regulation' (83 George Washington Law Review 1446, 2015). He has testified before Congress on regulatory reform, chaired the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice (2000-2001), served in the ABA House of Delegates since 2014, and was Senior Fellow and Chair of the Judicial Review Committee at the Administrative Conference of the United States (2012-2017). Levin received the ABA Section's 2011 Chair’s Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service and is a member of the American Law Institute since 2013.

Professional Email: rlevin@wustl.edu