| Ernst Levy | |
| Birth Date: | 23 December 1881 |
| Birth Place: | Berlin, Prussia |
| Death Place: | Davis, California |
| Nationality: | German American |
| Fields: | History of law |
| Alma Mater: | Humboldt University of Berlin |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Emil Seckel |
| Children: | Wolfgang (1910 - 2001), Brigitte (1912–1981) |
Ernst Levy (23 December 1881 – 14 September 1968) was a German American legal scholar and historian of law. He was a Professor of Roman Law at the Goethe University Frankfurt (1919–1928) and the University of Heidelberg (1928–1935).[1] Being Jewish, he was forced to retire in 1935, and decided to emigrate from Nazi Germany to the United States. At the University of Washington, he was a Professor of Law and History from 1937 to 1952.[2]
Born in Berlin, Levy studied law at the University of Freiburg and the Humboldt University of Berlin, earning his doctorate under Emil Seckel in 1906.[3] He briefly worked at the Amtsgericht in Oranienburg, and served in World War I, before earning a professorship in Frankfurt. Due to the Nuremberg Laws he had to retire in 1935, and then moved to the United States.