Dr. Jeremy Levitt is the distinguished professor of international law. A former Fulbright Research Chair in Human Rights and Social Justice at the Human Rights Research and Education Center, University of Ottawa, he was the first Black male to serve as a law deanin Canada and the first African American to serve as dean in Canada in any discipline. He formerly served as associate dean for international programs and founding director of the Center for International Law and Justice at FAMU.

Dr. Levitt is an internationally recognized public intellectual, legal scholar, international lawyer, political scientist and global administrator with a rare combination of experiential and theoretical training and experiences. He is recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities in international law and politics of Africa and is a pioneering scholar-practitioner in international human rights law, conflict and peace studies, transitional justice, and racialjustice studies. He is the author and editor of seven books and numerous scholarly works.

Dr. Levitt is also President and CEO of the Stono Institute for Freedom, Justice and Security, a non-partisan and multi-ethnic racial justice and human rights organization and think tank founded by African-Americans that aims to, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., combat “three major evils” including the “the evil of racism, the evil of poverty, and the evil of war,” as they relate to what King referred to as, “racial injustice”.

Dr. Levitt has extensive field expertise in Africa, Europe and the Caribbean. In 2016, he was a Senior External Scholar at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Center in Accra, Ghana. In 2009-2010, Louise Arbour, former UN High Commission for Human Rights nominated him to serve as Head of the International Technical Advisory Committee (ITAC) of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of the Republic of Liberia (TRC) during the country’s civil war. He was appointed to this position by Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of the Republic of Liberia and Africa’s first elected female president. In 2005, he was a visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Center for International Law at Cambridge University. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute.

Dr. Levitt holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge, a Doctor of Law from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Arizona State University.