Daniel Saul Lev[1] (October 23, 1933 – July 29, 2006) was an American political scientist and scholar on Indonesia.
[3] Because of his experience in Indonesia, Lev became a proponent of law reform after observing the "systematic dismantling" of its legal system under Presidents Sukarno and Suharto.
[3] As a scholar of Indonesian law, Lev helped the country's lawyers and activists continue their education in the United States.
[3] He had been writing a biography on Chinese Indonesian lawyer and human rights advocate Yap Thiam Hien at the time of his death.
[2] Fellow scholar and friend Benedict Anderson continued his work and published the book No Concessions: The Life of Yap Thiam Hien, Indonesian Human Rights Lawyer in 2011.