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Sophia Z. Lee

Professor of Law and History

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School


Sophia Lee is a legal historian whose scholarship synthesizes constitutional and administrative law. Her book, The Workplace Constitution from the New Deal to the New Right, is a history of administrative agencies’ role in shaping constitutional law and as a site for civil rights and labor advocacy. Other work on administrative constitutionalism appears in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the University of Virginia Law Review, and American Administrative Law from the Inside Out (Jerry Mashaw and Nicholas Parrillo, eds.). She is currently working on a history of constitutional privacy.