About Rebecca K.
There are few lawyers who move easily between a courtroom, a classroom and the world of small ventures. Rebecca K. Lee does exactly that. Her career threads academic appointments and private practice through an entrepreneurial present. She operates at the crossroads of law, policy and teaching.
Her academic credentials are broad and sequential. She earned a B.A. from the University of Chicago, followed by a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University. She completed her legal training at Georgetown University Law Center, receiving a J.D. that preceded her entry into practice and academia.
Lee began her legal career in private practice. In 2004 she joined Crowell & Moring LLP as an associate. That early experience exposed her to the structures of large-firm practice and introduced the procedural and transactional work that informs her later teaching. She left firm practice as her interests shifted toward scholarship and instruction.
By 2008 she had moved into academia as an associate professor of law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. The classroom became a primary venue for her work. Students encountered a teacher who combined case law and policy perspectives. She returned to visiting instruction in 2020, serving as a visiting professor of law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. That appointment expanded her teaching portfolio and connected her to a different cohort of scholars and students.
Alongside teaching, Lee has pursued independent entrepreneurship. That dimension of her career reflects an interest in translating legal ideas into practical initiatives. Her professional life has therefore included corporate practice, law school faculties and private entrepreneurial projects. This mix informs how she approaches both cases and courses.
While specific practice areas are not listed here, Lee’s background spans private practice, public policy training and law school scholarship. She has experience working within a major firm environment and later shaping legal education in multiple institutions. Students and colleagues have known her for attention to doctrinal detail and an interest in how the law affects institutional design.
Lee is admitted to practice in New York. She continues to combine academic roles and independent work, splitting her time between entrepreneurial projects and teaching commitments based in New York.
She now divides her time between independent entrepreneurial projects and academic work in New York.
