Lee Fennell
Professor of Law
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773-702-0603
email: lfennell@uchicago.edu

Lee Fennell received her J.D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center in 1990. She came to the Law School as a Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law in 1999, after practicing at Pettit & Martin, the State and Local Legal Center, and the Virginia School Boards Association. In 2001, she became an assistant professor at the University of Texas School of Law, and in 2004, an associate professor at the University of Illinois College of Law. She was promoted to professor at Illinois in 2006, and returned to the Chicago faculty as a professor in 2007. She has held visiting positions at Yale Law School (Fall 2005), NYU School of Law (Spring 2006), and the University of Virginia School of Law (Fall 2006).

Her teaching and research interests include property, torts, land use, housing, social welfare law, state and local government law, and public finance.