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Gia Lee
Acting Professor of Law
A.B. Harvard, 1992
M. Phil. University of Cambridge, 1993
J.D. Harvard, 1996
UCLA Law faculty since 2003
lee@law.ucla.edu |
Gia Lee is an Acting Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law.
Professor Lee is a graduate of Harvard College, where she received her A.B. in Women's Studies and Social Studies. After earning an M.Phil. in Social and Political Theory at Cambridge University, she attended Harvard Law School, where she served as Articles Chair of the Harvard Law Review. Upon graduation, Professor Lee clerked for Judge Judith W. Rogers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Selected as a Georgetown University Women's Law & Public Policy Fellow, she then litigated employment discrimination cases at both the trial and appellate levels at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. After working at McKinsey & Company as a management consultant, she then served as an attorney-advisor at the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice, where her areas of specialty included the First Amendment, separation of powers, national security, and civil rights. Prior to joining UCLA Law School, she practiced appellate and constitutional litigation with the Washington, D.C., office of Sidley Austin Brown & Wood.
Professor Lee teaches Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law II, and a seminar on secrecy in civil litigation. Her research interests focus on constitutional theory, democratic theory, and issues relating to information secrecy and transparency. Professor Lee is presently working on a paper that analyzes the relationship between contemporary legal practices and constitutional meaning. She is also co-authoring an empirical study on the impact of state medical malpractice disclosure websites on settlement and litigation behavior. Her recent publications include First Amendment Enforcement in Government Institutions and Programs, 56 UCLA L. Rev. 1691 (2009); The President's Secrets, 76 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 197 (2008); and Persuasion, Transparency and Government Speech, 56 HASTINGS L. J. 983 (2005).
