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]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f Lee, Sophia Z. (2023). "Curriculum Vitae". University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
- ^ Charnosky, Christine (April 4, 2023). "Penn Carey Law Promotes Faculty Member to Become First Female Dean". Law.com. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
- ^ Snyder, Susan (2023-04-04). "Penn names first female law school dean in 170-plus year history". Inquirer. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
- ^ Reviews of The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right:
- Dinner, Deborah (2015). "Review". Law and History Review. 33 (4): 1019–1021. ISSN 0738-2480. JSTOR 43670848.
- Baranowski, Brad (2017). "Review". History. 102 (2 (350)): 350–352. ISSN 0018-2648. JSTOR 26624768.
- Vinel, Jean-Christian (2016). "Review". The American Historical Review. 121 (1): 264–264. ISSN 0002-8762. JSTOR 43956218.
- Griffey, Trevor (2016). "Review". The Journal of American History. 102 (4): 1246–1247. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 44287333.
- Boyle, Kevin (2015). "Review". The Business History Review. 89 (4): 792–794. ISSN 0007-6805. JSTOR 43896972.