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

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

  • 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]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lee, Sophia Z. (2023). "Curriculum Vitae". University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  2. ↑ Charnosky, Christine (April 4, 2023). "Penn Carey Law Promotes Faculty Member to Become First Female Dean". Law.com. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  3. ↑ Snyder, Susan (2023-04-04). "Penn names first female law school dean in 170-plus year history". Inquirer. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  4. ↑ Reviews of The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right:
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