Rate My Professor Sophia Z. Lee

Lee's scholarship centers on administrative and constitutional law viewed historically, pioneering administrative constitutionalism to examine agencies' roles in constitutional development, privacy's constitutional origins, administrative law and racial justice, and civil rights-labor rights intersections. Key publications include her book The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right (Cambridge University Press, 2014), which earned an Honorable Mention for the J. Willard Hurst Prize; Our Administered Constitution: Administrative Constitutionalism from the Founding to the Present, 168 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1699 (2019); The Reconciliation Roots of Fourth Amendment Privacy, University of Chicago Law Review (2024); Racial Justice and Administrative Procedure, 97 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 161 (2022); and A Revolution at War with Itself? Preserving Employment Preferences from Weber to Ricci, 124 Yale L.J. 100 (2014). She has received Penn Carey Law's Harvey Levin Award for Teaching Excellence (2023), Robert A. Gorman Award (2022), and A. Leo Levin Award (2019). Her work illuminates law's political dimensions and non-judicial influences, with leadership in the American Society for Legal History and Labor and Working Class History Association.