Professor Ariana Levinson Named Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law

The Brandeis School of Law is proud to share that Professor Ariana Levinson, Frost Brown Todd Professor of Law, has received a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award. She will serve as the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law at the University of Trento during the Spring 2026 semester.

Fulbright awards are highly competitive fellowships that offer scholars unique opportunities to teach and conduct research abroad, playing a vital role in U.S. public diplomacy. Professor Levinson will teach a course titled Comparative, U.S., and Contrasting Labour Law Frameworks. In addition, she will engage in research, lectures, and conversations with students, scholars, practitioners, and policymakers about the intersection of labor and employment law and employee-owned businesses. Italy is home to the world’s most highly developed decentralized ecosystem of worker-owned cooperatives—a resilient and impactful business model.

Since 1946, the Fulbright Program has provided more than 400,000 students, scholars, teachers, artists, and professionals the opportunity to study, teach, and conduct research abroad. Fulbrighters exchange ideas, build people-to-people connections, and work together to address complex global challenges. The Fulbright Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, with funding from the U.S. government. Participating governments and host institutions—including the U.S.–Italy Fulbright Commission in Rome—as well as corporations and foundations around the world, also contribute direct and indirect support to the program, which operates in over 160 countries.

Please join me in congratulating Professor Ariana Levinson on this prestigious award that recognizes her excellence as a scholar and teacher.

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Melanie B. Jacobs
Dean and Professor of Law