Youngjae Lee

Visiting Professor of Law

Research Interests

• Criminal Law
• Criminal Procedure
• Sentencing

Education

• Swarthmore College B.A. 1995, Philosophy (minor: Economics)
• Harvard Law School J.D. 1999

Appointments

• Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law

Additional Information

Visiting Professor Lee will teach the course International Criminal Law, as well as the seminar Criminal Law Theory in the Fall 2012 term. He will also teach a section of Criminal Law in the Spring 2013 term.

Biographical Statement

Youngjae Lee's research focuses on questions of criminal culpability and state punishment, and he has written about the culpability of traitors, of repeat offenders, and of offenders with military service backgrounds, and also about the concept of excessive punishment under the Cruel and Unusual Punishments clause of the Eighth Amendment. As a Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law and a visiting professor at University of Chicago Law School and UCLA School of Law, he has taught criminal law, criminal procedure, criminal law theory, international criminal law, and torts. Lee joined the Fordham faculty in fall 2005 from NYU School of Law, where he was an Alexander Fellow. Lee is a 1995 graduate of Swarthmore College and a 1999 graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was Primary Editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Representative Publications

• Lee, Youngjae. "Military Veterans, Culpability, and Blame," 6 Criminal Law and Philosophy (forthcoming 2012).
  
• Lee, Youngjae. "Punishing Disloyalty?: Treason, Espionage, and the Transgression of Political Boundaries," 31 Law and Philosophy 299 (2012).
  
• Lee, Youngjae. "Recidivism as Omission: A Relational Account," 87 Texas Law Review 571 (2009).
  
• Lee, Youngjae. "International Consensus as Persuasive Authority in the Eighth Amendment," 156 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 63 (2007).
  
• Lee, Youngjae. "The Constitutional Right Against Excessive Punishment," 91 Virginia Law Review 677 (2005).