Brant T. Lee is an Associate Professor of Law at The University of Akron School of Law. Professor Lee teaches Property; Feminist and Race Theory and the Law; Employment Discrimination and Law and Theology. Prior to joining the Akron Law faculty in 1997, Professor Lee was employed as counsel for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington D.C. and deputy staff secretary and special assistant to the President at The White House in Washington D.C. He also was an associate for Breon, O'Donnell, Miller, Brown and Dennis, San Francisco, Calif. and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law. Professor Lee focuses his research in the area of race and complex systems. His most recent article is entitled “The Network Economic Effects of Whiteness” (53 Am. U.L. Rev. 1259-1304 (2004)). He received his B.A. from The University of California at Berkley and his J.D. and M.P.P. from Harvard University, where he was an articles editor for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.
Articles and Essays
Book Review of Thomas J. Davis, Race Relations in America: A Reference Guide with Primary Documents, Law & History Review (2008)
Book Review.
The Devil in the Details: On Intelligent Design, Racial Conspiracy Theories, and the Theology of Whiteness, Quinnipiac Law Review (2007)
It is a central problem in the great American conversation about race to explain persistent...
The Network Economic Effects of Whiteness, American University Law Review (2004)
In this Essay I demonstrate that a network economic analysis of race provides an important...
Teaching the Amistad, Saint Louis University Law Journal (2002)
In 1841, a Cuban slave ship called the Amistad was captured and taken into custody...
A Racial Trust: The Japanese YWCA and the Alien Land Law, Asian Pacific American Law Journal (2001)
When a dispute arose over the old Japanese Young Women's Christian Association (“YWCA”) building in...