Brant Lee

 

 

Wednesday, February 8
Brant Lee
Location: 1 - 2:30 pm at Student Union Theatre

Secrets and Lies: Misperceiving the Asian Next Door

Professor Lee will weave personal family history together with landmark legal cases and recent events to show how law has constructed Asian American identity. The images of insularity and perpetual foreignness that have marked American perceptions of Asian Americans provides important background for current debates over race and national security in the war on terror. 

Brant T. Lee is an Associate Professor of Law at The University of Akron School of Law. He received his B.A. from The University of California at Berkley and his J.D. and M.P.P. from Harvard University. Prior to joining the Akron Law faculty in 1997, Professor Lee was employed as counsel for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, and as Acting Deputy Staff Secretary and Special Assistant to the President at The White House. He also practiced law in his home town of San Francisco. Professor Lee writes in the area of race and complex systems. He teaches courses on Property Law and Employment Discrimination, as well as seminars on Problem-Solving, Feminist and Race Theory, Race and National Security, and Law and Theology.