Daniel Lev, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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American political scientist
Date of Birth: 23-Oct-1933
Date of Death: 29-Jul-2006
Profession: political scientist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Daniel Lev
- Daniel Saul Lev (October 23, 1933 – July 29, 2006) was an American political scientist and scholar on Indonesia. Lev was born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio.
- In his youth, he participated in the Golden Gloves competitions for amateur boxing.
- He graduated from Miami University in 1955 and received his doctorate from Cornell University, where he became a member of the Modern Indonesia Project.
- Lev first traveled to Indonesia in 1959 and stayed in the country for three years.
- 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.After returning to the United States, he became a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
- Lev's opposition to the Vietnam War was not well received by the university and likely prevented him from receiving tenure.
- Soon after, he moved to Seattle to teach at the University of Washington before finally retiring in 1999.
- As a scholar of Indonesian law, Lev helped the country's lawyers and activists continue their education in the United States.
- His dissertation titled The Transition to Guided Democracy: Indonesian Politics 1957–1959 analyzed Sukarno's Guided Democracy principles and became a classic reading on the development of the country's political system.
- He was also a member of Human Rights Watch and served on the advisory committee of its Asia division.Lev was a heavy smoker and died from lung cancer on July 29, 2006.
- He had been writing a biography on Chinese Indonesian lawyer and human rights advocate Yap Thiam Hien at the time of his death.
- Over 900 pages of the book had been written, and two chapters remained unwritten.
- 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.He was married to Arlene O.
- Lev and had two children, son Louis and daughter Claire.
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