Biography
I am a legal scholar and historian of U.S. environmental law.
My book project and related projects trace how legal thinkers in the 1960s and 70s experimented with a new concept: “the environment.” I uncover forgotten projects drawing upon everything from tort and property law to constitutional and administrative law to antitrust and labor law.
In other writing, I have considered how ideas from democratic theory and historical institutionalism might improve regulation. My research has been published in the Michigan Law Review and the American Journal of Law and Equality.
I have served as a law clerk for Judge Jenny Rivera on the New York Court of Appeals and Judge John M. Walker, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. I hold a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University.
As of September 2025, I am a legal fellow at the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law.
Publications
Democratically Durable Regulation, 3 Am. J. L. & Equal. 283 (2023)
Beyond ‘Big Government’: Toward New Legal Histories of the New Deal Order’s End, 121 Mich. L. Rev. 1003 (2023)
Personal
I am an avid bassoonist. I always welcome opportunities to perform orchestral and chamber music. I also occasionally write music.
My wife, Jenne P. O’Brien, owns and operates Manifold Vintage, a curated collection of beautiful, sustainable clothing.
Contact
My gmail address is my full name, including my middle initial. Please contact me for my current CV.
I am on Twitter and other similar social media @gllevine. I host some of my scholarship on SSRN.