For over three decades civil rights attorney and criminologist Professor Brian Levin has been recognized for pioneering research and policy initiatives on hate and extremism within academia, the NGO community, courts and government. Mr. Levin is founding director of California State University – San Bernardino’s award-winning Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism. Prof. Levin is the 2020 recipient of the annual Wang Family Excellence Award for Outstanding Scholarship for the CSU system, the largest in the nation. He has authored or coauthored influential studies on hate crime trends as well as related Supreme Court briefs and widely cited articles in journals like Stanford Law & Policy Review, Northwestern Law School Journal of Crime & Criminology and American Behavioral Scientist.
Prof. Levin has testified and presented analysis before C onongress and the California legislature across four decades. In addition, he has assisted the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Anti-Semitism, numerous universities, state and federal agencies, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and innumerable NGOs. He has served on various boards including the California Association of Official Human Relations Organizations, the National Coalition for the Homeless, We Are Many United Against Hate – Wisconsin and was an organizational representative to the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights’ Hate Crime Task Force. Levin is principal author of a key brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Wisconsin v. Mitchell in 1993, where he presented criminological analysis on hate crime’s severity. His co-authored book, The Limits of Dissent is about the Constitution and domestic terrorism. To learn more about his work, please check out his bio on https://calcivilrights.ca.gov/commission-on-the-state-of-hate/commissioner-levin/
After listening to the episode, you may want to check out the Commission’s most recent reports and CA vs Hate. The research on political speech on hate is on p.47 of the annual report.
To report incidents of hate crime or incidents, call 1 8338 NO HATE.
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