Brian Levey

Biography

Brian Levey joined the Mendoza faculty in 2007 after a twenty year legal career, most recently focused on building corporate ethics and compliance programs. During his time at Mendoza, he has taught the introductory undergraduate Business Law course, as well as several ethics classes in the undergraduate, graduate and executive programs including Foundations of Ethical Behavior, Ethics in Accounting, Ethics in Sports and Fraud on Film. Levey has served as a faculty fellow for both the Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership and the Kaneb Center for Teaching and Learning. 

Prior to joining the college of business, Levey was Fannie Mae's vice president for ethics. Before that, he was the director of compliance and business ethics with Smiths Group plc, an international engineering company based in the United Kingdom. Previously, Levey was a deputy ethics officer and associate counsel with MCI (formerly WorldCom and now Verizon Business). He has also been in private practice and served as an adjunct professor at George Mason University and The George Washington University.

SFP Featured Course: Ethics in Sports

The course is designed to raise students' ability to recognize and resolve ethical issues in sports, but also more broadly in business, accounting and life. Accordingly, this this course will ask students to examine a variety of issues through various ethical lenses. Topics will vary from semester to semester, but are likely to include the ethical dimensions of: college athletics, including amateurism, compensation, and unionization; wellness, focusing on everything from finances to doping; corruption, including gambling, college academic and admissions scandals, and FIFA; and sports and the common good, i.e., can sports advance issues as diverse as gender and racial equity and sustainable economic development in the form of stadium construction and hosting the Olympic Games. In addition to critical thinking, students will be well served by curiosity, skepticism and keeping an open mind. Requirements typically include in-class participation, a presentation on a current ethical issue in sports, and two exams.