Prior to joining NCCU, Professor Lee was a tenured, full professor at Campbell University, Norman A. Wiggins School of Law, where he taught corporate law, jurisprudence, and computational law for 15 years. He was the founding director of the Campbell Law Innovation Institute and the founding chair of the North Carolina Bar Association Future of Law Committee.
In 2017, he was recognized by FastCase as one of the top 50 innovators. Professor Lee was a law clerk to the Hon. Herbert J. Hutton, Jr., US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He was a foreign office lawyer/associate with a large commercial law firm located in Tokyo, Japan. He holds advanced degrees in social and political ethics from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago and from Colgate University in philosophy and religion, and he is a graduate of New York Law School.