Sophia Z. Lee

Sophia Z. Lee is an American legal historian and academic administrator serving as the dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School since 2023.

Life[edit]

Lee earned a B.A. (1994) and M.S.W. (1999) from the University of California, Berkeley.^[1] From 2000 to 2001, she was a research associate at the Vera Institute of Justice. She earned a J.D. (2006) and Ph.D. (2010) in history at Yale University.^[1] She served as the editor in chief and managing editor of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities.^[1] Her dissertation was titled, "Almost Revolutionary": The Constitution's Strange Career in the Workplace, 1935-1980. From 2008 to 2009, she was a law clerk for U.S. district court judge Kimba Wood.^[1]

Lee joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Law School as an assistant professor of law from 2009 to 2013, and professor of law and history starting in 2014.^[1] On July 1, 2023, she became the dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law, succeeding Theodore Ruger.^[1][2] She is the school's first female dean.^[3]

Selected works[edit]

• Lee, Sophia Z. (2014). The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-316-06119-0.^[4]

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