Kerem Levitas

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Kerem is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Law and a clerk to the Honorable Linda Lau at the Washington State Court of Appeals, Division One. At the University of Washington, Kerem served as vice-president of the Middle East Law Students Association of Washington, a Notes and Comments Editor on the Washington Law Review, and a member of the Tribal Criminal Defense Clinic. Prior to law school, he worked as a researcher at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington D.C. where he focused on conflict resolution issues in the Middle East and South Asia. He maintains a professional and personal interest in Rule of Law issues in the Middle East and the wider Muslim world. In 2008, he travelled to Pakistan as part of a delegation of civil rights attorneys and law students to assess judicial independence in the wake of then-President Musharaf’s imposition of martial law. He has also worked as an analyst for the Public International Law and Policy Group’s Somaliland project. He is admitted to practice in Oregon and at the Tulalip Nation.

Kerem is Turkish-American and grew up in the Washington, D.C. area. He travels frequently to Turkey where he enjoys visiting family and friends, eating kumru, and attending Beşiktaş games.