Lev is a PhD Candidate, Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne. He is also responsible for developing and supporting the Melbourne Law School’s Regulation and Design Network. He has extensive regulatory experience through his work as a regulator at a major Commonwealth regulatory agency, and as a researcher studying in the field of regulation. His research interest is at the intersection of ethics, animal law and regulation. His PhD, in the area of animal law and socio-legal studies, develops a multi-species account of law and policy that accounts for animals as an affected stakeholder constituency and uses this account to evaluate the legitimacy of Australian farmed animal welfare regulation.