Leitner Family Professor of International Law; Co-Director of Center on Asian Americans & the Law, Fordham Law School
Thomas Lee is the Leitner Family Professor of International Law at Fordham University School of Law. He holds A.B. (summa cum laude), A.M. (Regional Studies—East Asia), and J.D. degrees from Harvard, where he was Articles Chair of the Law Review and a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in Government. He has written many articles and book chapters about constitutional law, international law, U.S. foreign relations law, federal courts, and legal history. He has also been a visiting professor at Columbia, Harvard, and the University of Virginia Law Schools; U.S. law adviser to the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Korea; and Special Counsel to the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Defense.
Before his academic career, Professor Lee clerked for Chief Judge Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and for Associate Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court and served as an active-duty U.S. naval cryptology officer ashore in Korea, Japan, and Washington DC, and afloat in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. He is also Of Counsel at Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, adjunct professor at NYU School of Law, and a member of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) Panel of Conciliators and of the American Law Institute. Professor Lee was born in Seoul, Korea, and emigrated to the United States with his family in 1974.