  We first calculate the binding energy, the pionic and electromagnetic couping
constants of the lowest lying p-wave heavy baryon doublet $\Lambda_{c1}$,
$\Lambda_{c1}^*$ in the leading order of the heavy quark expansion. Then we
calculate the two-body decay widths with these couplings and compare our
results with other approaches. Our results are $\Gamma (\Lambda_{c1}\to
\Sigma_c \pi, \Sigma_c \gamma, \Sigma^*_c \gamma) =2.7, 0.011, 0.001$ MeV and
$\Gamma (\Lambda^*_{c1}\to \Sigma_c \pi, \Sigma_c \gamma, \Sigma^*_c \gamma,
\Lambda_{c1} \gamma) =33, 5, 6, 0.014$ keV respectively. We find $\Lambda_{c1},
\Lambda^*_{c1}\to \Lambda_c \gamma$ is strictly forbidden in the leading order
of the heavy quark expansion. At the order of ${\cal O} (1/m_c)$ their widths
are $36, 48$ keV respectively.
