Carly Levenson

Peter Gruber Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law
Education

J.D., Yale Law School, 2016
B.A., Amherst College, 2009

Courses Taught
  • Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic
  • Criminal Justice Clinic
  • Imprisoned: Conception, Construction, Abolition, and Alternatives
Carly Levenson

Carly Levenson is a Peter Gruber Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law, senior fellow in residence at the Liman Center, and research scholar and teaching lecturer in law at Yale Law School. From 2018 to 2026, she was an assistant federal public defender in the District of Connecticut, where she represented individuals at trial, sentencing, on appeal, and in post-conviction proceedings. Levenson focuses on issues related to federal sentencing, including reduction-in-sentence motions and supervised release. She has been a visiting clinical lecturer in law with the Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic since 2019 and with the Criminal Justice Clinic since 2024. She was a Liman Fellow in 2017–18, working with the CT Division of Public Defender Services. 

Levenson received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2016 and a B.A. from Amherst College in 2009.