Leon Letwin
Template:TOCnestleft Leon Letwin is a Professor of Law Emeritus at UCLA. He joined the UCLA Law faculty in 1964.
Education
Letwin earned a Ph.B. at the University of Chicago in 1948, an LL.B. University of Wisconsin, 1952 and an LL.M. from Harvard, 1968.
Career
According to the UCLA website[1];
- Leon Letwin's writing and research interests include civil procedure, criminal law, and evidence. He has advanced the UCLA School of Law's diversity program. He received the School of Law's Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1983 and was elected Professor of the Year by the Class of 1975.
- Professor Letwin engaged in a general law practice in Milwaukee during the 1950s and '60s, in which he undertook a number of pro bono cases in the 1960s, including the representation of college students in proceedings arising out of their participation in anti-war demonstrations and the representation of public school students seeking the right to distribute written material on school grounds without prior censorship by school authorities.
- He is author of Evidence Law: Commentary, Problems, and Cases (1987) and editor of Assignments in Trial Practice (1964).
Early communist activism
In 1947 Leon Letwin was a member[2]of Chicago American Youth for Democracy-youth wing of the Communist Party USA.
Letwin was vice president of the University of Chicago Communist Club in 1948.
While studying law at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in the early 1950s, Letwin was an officer[3] the Labor Youth League-the new name for the Communist Party youth wing.
Open Letter to Obama on Iran
In 2008 Leon Letwin, Professor of Law, Emeritus, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA signed an online petition “A Open Letter to Barack Obama on Iran”.[4]