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

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EDUCATION

Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.
J.D., May 1990; magna cum laude; Order of the Coif
Topics Editor, American Criminal Law Review
John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Scholar-in-Residence, School of Law, Fall 1998 to Spring 1999
Henry Hoyns Fellow in Fiction; M.F.A. in Fiction Writing, May 1998

Baylor University, Waco, TX
B.B.A. in Public Administration, August 1987; summa cum laude

EXPERIENCE

University of Chicago Law School
Professor, July 2007 to present
Courses: Property; Torts; Local Government; Social Welfare Law; Fair Housing Committee Service: Law Teaching: Placement of Graduates (2007-08); Appointments (2008-09)

University of Illinois College of Law
Professor, 2006-07
Associate Professor, 2004-06
Associate Director, Illinois Program in Law and Economics
Courses: Property; Land Use; Statutory Interpretation - Fair Housing; Advanced Law and Economics (co-taught with Thomas S. Ulen)
Committee Service: Admissions and Scholarship (Spring 2007); Curriculum and Academic Affairs (2004-05)

University of Virginia School of Law
Visiting Professor, Fall 2006
Courses: Social Welfare Law; Tragedies of the Commons and Anticommons

New York University School of Law
Visiting Professor, Spring 2006
Courses: Fair Housing; Colloquium on the Law, Economics, and Politics of Urban Affairs (co-taught with Vicki Been and Ingrid Gould Ellen)

Yale Law School
Visiting Associate Professor, Fall 2005
Courses: Property; Social Welfare Policy

University of Texas School of Law
Assistant Professor, 2001-04
Courses: Property; Social Welfare Law; Economics, Behavior, and the Law
Committee Service: Rules and Standards (2003-04); Appointments (2002-03); Curriculum (2001-02)

University of Chicago Law School
Bigelow Teaching Fellow, 1999-2001
Courses: Legal Research and Writing; Distributive Justice

Virginia School Boards Association
Staff Attorney, Charlottesville, VA
September 1998 to July 1999

University of Virginia
English Department, Instructor, 1997-98
Courses: Introductory Fiction Writing