Ernst Levy (23 December 1881 – 14 September 1968) was a German American legal scholar and historian of law.
[3] Being Jewish, he was forced to retire in 1935, and decided to emigrate from Nazi Germany to the University of Washington in the United States, where he was a Professor of Law and History from 1937 to 1952.
[5] He briefly worked at the Amtsgericht in Oranienburg, and served in World War I in the artillery before earning a professorship at Frankfurt.
[6] During his career Levy was managing editor of the Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte for nine years and was granted a Guggenheim Fellowship.
[7] Levy also served as "magister" of the Riccobono Seminar at the Catholic University of America in 1944.