Daniel Levin, a friend and colleague of Matthew Pearl, graduated from Harvard Law School, after earning his undergraduate degree in Roman and Greek Civilization at the University of Michigan. He was a clerk for the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel and assisted on archaeological excavations in Jerusalem. He practiced international law at Debevoise and Plimpton in New York City, and in 2004 won a Visiting Scholar's Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.
