Levy testifies at House subcommittee hearing on expanding federal courts of appeal
Levy, an expert in judicial administration and federal courts, appeared virtually before the hearing, which was titled “The Need for New Lower Court Judgeships, 30 Years in the Making.”
Professor Marin Levy
Professor Marin K. Levy testified before the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet on Feb. 24 during a hearing on expanding the federal appellate judiciary.
Levy, an expert in judicial administration and federal courts, appeared virtually before the hearing, which was titled “The Need for New Lower Court Judgeships, 30 Years in the Making.”
“Based upon my research, I believe that Congress should authorize new judgeships for the courts of appeals to keep pace with higher caseloads — as it has done, traditionally with bipartisan support, nearly thirty times before,” Levy said.
Levy is director of Duke’s Program in Public Law and a faculty advisor to the Bolch Judicial Institute. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal, University of Chicago Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Cornell Law Review, and California Law Review, among other scholarly journals, and has been discussed in the New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic, and other public outlets. She is a co-author of Federal Standards of Review: Appellate Court Review of District Court Decisions and Agency Actions (2nd ed.) with Judge Harry T. Edwards and Linda A. Elliott.
Read Levy's written testimony here.
Watch video of the hearing here (begins at 43:45).