Thomas Lee

Thomas Lee is the Leitner Family Professor of International Law at Fordham University School
of Law, where is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Center on Asian Americans and the Law.
His research interests are federal courts, constitutional law, international law, U.S. foreign
relations law, civil procedure, and legal history. He is also Special Counsel at Hughes Hubbard
& Reed, Adjunct Professor at New York University School of Law, and a member of the
American Law Institute. He has been a visiting law professor at Columbia, Harvard, and the
University of Virginia; Special Counsel at the Department of Defense; a Member of the ICSID
Panel of Conciliators; and U.S. law adviser to the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Korea.
Before his academic career, Lee clerked for Judge Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the First Circuit and Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court and served as an active-
duty U.S. naval cryptology officer afloat on submarines and surface combatants and ashore in
Korea, Japan, and with the National Security Agency. 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 Harvard Law Review and a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) in Government.