Professor Lee teaches international intellectual property law and copyright law. He
is visiting Chicago-Kent during the fall 2009 term from The Ohio State University Moritz
College of Law, where he is a professor of law.
Professor Lee is a 1995 cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was an editor
and co-chair of the books and commentaries office of the Harvard Law Review. In 1992, he
graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Williams College with a bachelor's
degree in philosophy (highest honors) and classics.
Professor Lee's research focuses on the ways in which the Internet, technological
development, and globalization challenge existing legal paradigms. He also writes
extensively about the Framers' understanding of the Free Press Clause as a limit on
using the Copyright Clause to restrict technologies. In addition to numerous articles, he
co-authored a leading casebook with Daniel Chow titled International Intellectual
Property: Problems, Cases, and Materials (West Group 2006).
Previously, Professor Lee was a legal writing instructor at Stanford Law School and an
attorney at the law school's Center for Internet and Society, where he supervised
students involved in public interest litigation related to law and technology and the
Internet. From 1996 to 1999, Professor Lee was a litigation associate in the Washington,
D.C., office of Mayer, Brown & Platt, working at all levels of trial and appellate
litigation, including cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Immediately following law
school, he clerked for the Honorable John T. Noonan Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Ninth Circuit.
Copyright Law
First Amendment
Internet Law
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