Marc Levin, JD

Marc Levin is a leading voice in criminal justice reform, known for bridging legal scholarship, policy innovation, and bipartisan collaboration to advance evidence-based solutions. An attorney and prolific author, he founded the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s criminal justice program in 2005, spearheading reforms that significantly reduced Texas’ crime and incarceration rates.

Building on this success, he launched the influential Right on Crime initiative in 2010, helping shape state and national debates on fairer, more effective justice policies.

Levin has testified before Congress four times and before state legislatures hundreds of times, advising lawmakers across the country and internationally in the UK, Australia, and Uruguay. His expertise spans sentencing, parole, reentry, and overcriminalization, with policy papers and articles featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and other major outlets.

He serves on the boards of Urban Rural Action, the Aspen Institute Criminal Justice Initiative, UT’s Prison and Jail Innovation Lab, The Marshall Project, and the Federalist Society’s Criminal Law & Procedure Executive Committee.

A graduate of the University of Texas (Plan II Honors, Government) and UT Law, Levin clerked for Judge Will Garwood on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and worked as a Staff Attorney at the Texas Supreme Court.