Eunice Lee
Eunice Lee is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. Her research centers on migration, citizenship, and borders. Professor Lee engages overlapping areas of immigration, constitutional, administrative, and international human rights law to understand the rights of immigrants and refugees in the United States. She also draws upon social theory and her doctoral training in anthropology in her work.
Professor Lee co-directs the law school’s Bacon Immigration Law & Policy Program and co-founded its J.D. Immigration Law Certificate Program. She teaches in the areas of civil procedure, immigration law, and citizenship theory.
In prior practice, Professor Lee was a litigator at the national American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants' Rights Project. She also previously co-directed the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies and served as the Albert M. Sacks Fellow at Harvard Law School.
Professor Lee holds a B.A. from Stanford University, a Ph.D. in Anthropology from UC Berkeley, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. After law school, she clerked for the Hon. Carlos F. Lucero of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Professor Lee’s awards include the Distinguished Early Career Legal Scholar Award for research (2024); the Arizona Law AALS Professor of the Year award for teaching (2026); and the Leslie F. and Patricia Bell Faculty Service Award (2021).
Education
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Anthropology
2020 - J.D., Yale Law School
2006 - B.A., Stanford University
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