Thomas Lee is the Leitner Family Professor of International Law and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Center on Asian Americans and the Law at Fordham Law School. He joined the Fordham law faculty in 2002 and was Faculty Director of Graduate and International Studies from 2006 to 2019. His research interests are immigration law, international law, U.S. foreign relations law, constitutional law, federal courts, and legal history. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Columbia, Harvard, and the University of Virginia Law Schools; Special Counsel at the Department of Defense; a Member of the ICSID Panel of Conciliators; and U.S. law adviser to the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Korea. He is Special Counsel at Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, and a Member of the Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, and of the American Law Institute. Before his academic career, Lee clerked for Judge Michael Boudin of the First Circuit and Justice David Souter of the Supreme Court and served as a U.S. naval cryptology officer, afloat on submarines and surface combatants and ashore in Korea, Japan, and with the National Security Agency. He is a graduate of Harvard University (A.B., summa cum laude; A.M. in Regional Studies-East Asia) where he also studied for a Ph.D. in Government (ABD), and an honors graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was Articles Chair of the Law Review.