Philip Lee

Philip Lee, Professor of Law, St. John's University School of Law

Philip Lee is a professor of law at St. John's University School of Law; previously, he was a professor of law for 10 years at UDC David A. Clarke School of Law. He is also the former assistant director of admissions at Harvard. Prior to joining the admissions staff at Harvard, he was an associate at a white-collar criminal defense boutique in Manhattan and an assistant corporation counsel at the New York City Law Department.

Professor Lee’s interests center on academic freedom, diversity and educational access, school law, higher education history and law, and property law and race. His work has appeared in Emory Law Journal, Ohio State Law Journal, West Virginia Law Review, Utah Law Review, Brooklyn Law Review, St. Louis University Law Journal, Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development, Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice, among others. He also published Academic Freedom at American Universities: Constitutional Rights, Professional Norms and Contractual Duties in 2015 and served as editor-in-chief of the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession’s 2019-2020 Review.

He is a magna cum laude graduate in psychology and sociology of Duke University, holds an M.Ed. Ed.D. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he interned at Harvard Defenders, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston, and the Criminal Justice Institute.