Mark A. Levin

Mark A. Levin serves as Professor of Law at the University of Hawai'i, concurrently holding directorships for the University of Hawai'i Center for Japanese Studies and Pacific-Asian Legal Studies Program. He joined the faculty in January 1997 after pioneering as the first non-Japanese full faculty member at Hokkaido University's Law Department in Japan.

His academic credentials include:

• BBA with high distinction from the University of Michigan (1980)
• Juris Doctor from Yale Law School (1983)
• LL.M. from the University of Washington's Asian Law Program (1990)

Levin's research centers on Japanese legal systems with emphases on gender dynamics, judicial administration, and indigenous rights. His scholarship examines tobacco regulation frameworks, legal education evolution, criminal justice procedures including Japan's lay judge system, and historical analyses of wartime legal issues. Current projects investigate women's roles in Japanese legal academia through bilingual publications.

Key professional recognitions:

• Blakemore Foundation Grant for Advanced Asian Language Study (1992)
• Japan Foundation Fellowship for Tokyo University research

He maintains extensive service commitments including election to the American Association of Law Schools' East Asian Law Executive Committee, editorial board membership for The Journal of Japanese Studies, and State of Hawai'i Supreme Court appointments to the Committee on Certification of Court Interpreters and Permanent Committee on Equality and Access to the Courts. Previously served as Vice-Chair of Hawai'i's Tobacco Prevention Advisory Board (2007-2009) and as Japan Studies Endowment Committee Chair, while participating in the University of Hawai'i President's Emerging Leadership Program (2015 cohort).