Stuart Lev will present the 2017 Edward Ross Lecture in Litigation. His remarks will be titled, "Representing the Powerless."
Lev is a career public defender –and proud of it. After graduating from the University of Michigan Law School, he worked as an appellate defender at the Michigan State Appellate Defender Office. After returning to Philadelphia in 1986, he joined the Defender Association of Philadelphia where he practiced as both a trial and appellate lawyer.
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. He has helped win new trials and/or re - sentencings for dozens of death - sentenced prisoners. Stuart has argued numerous cases in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, as well as in the Pennsylvania and Michigan state courts. In February 2016 he argued Williams v. Pa in the United States Supreme Court, which ultimately ruled in his favor. That same year, he won national recognition as the Outstanding Assistant Federal Defender in a Capital Habeas Unit.