Lee A. Harris

Assistant Professor of Law

Teaching Interests: Business Organizations, Contracts, Corporations, Law and Economics, Social Welfare Policy

Education: B.A., Morehouse College, 2000; Visiting Student, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1998-1999, J.D., Yale Law School, 2003.

Experience: 2005-present, Assistant Professor of Law, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law; 2003-2005, Associate, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz; Coker Fellow, Yale Law School, 2002-2003

Admitted: Tennessee (inactive)

Achievements/Publications: Professor Harris’ recent publications have appeared in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, University of Maryland Journal of Race, Class & Gender, Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law, Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, and the University of Memphis Law Review, among other legal journals.  His paper on medical liability caps was among twelve papers selected on a blind peer-review basis for inclusion in the Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum in 2007. Right now, Professor Harris is working on a short treatise on Corporations and Other Business Organizations, which is scheduled to be published by the Carolina Academic Press at the end of 2008. To download recent publications by Professor Harris at no cost, please visit the social science research network at: http://ssrn.com/author=118242. During the 2007-2008 academic year, Professor Harris will be visiting at George Washington University School of Law in Washington DC.

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Email: laharris@memphis.edu