With a faculty vote this afternoon, the Wayne State University Law School created a new center named for Senator Carl Levin, which school officials say will educate future attorneys, business leaders, legislators and public servants on "their role in overseeing public and private institutions." Levin himself will take over as chairman of the new Levin Center at Wayne Law, step in as "distinguished legislator in residence" at the university and teach classes, beginning this fall with a course on tax policy, its effects on society and, as Levin put it, "how tax avoidance activities have punched a hole in our income tax system." "They called me, they suggested there be this center that would focus on the oversight authority of government and the difference it can make," Levin, Michigan's longest-serving U.S. senator ever, told the Free Press. "I'm very much committed to the city, so it had a great attraction to me." There were other offers, he said. But Wayne Law succeeded in luring Levin in by proposing a center that will train legislators and business leaders "to embrace the same ideals of integrity and transparency and accountability that he has built his life around," said the law school's dean, Jocelyn Benson. Wayne State President M. Roy Wilson said Levin, who won praise from colleagues as a "senator's senator" for his intellect, integrity and work ethic as he prepared to depart Congress late last year, will be a draw for the law school. "Given his stature, to have a senator like that at Wayne State means a lot," Wilson told the Free Press. "I think there are very few people who could do something like this. We're very pleased."

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