Professor Edward Lee is a legal scholar whose research focuses on the ways in which the Internet, disruptive technologies, and globalization challenge existing legal paradigms. He teaches copyright law, design law, international intellectual property law, and torts, and has co-authored casebooks in the latter three subjects. He founded ChatGPTiseatingtheworld.com, where he analyzes AI controversies, especially the copyright litigation.

Before joining the Santa Clara Law faculty, he was a professor of law at IIT Chicago-Kent’s faculty and a director of its Program in Intellectual Property Law. He started his academic career at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, where he became a professor of law.

Lee clerked for Judge John T. Noonan, Jr., on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He was a fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, where he worked on public interest cases. He was a litigation associate at Mayer Brown.

Professor Lee is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was an editor and co-chair of the books and commentaries office of the Harvard Law Review. In 1992, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Williams College with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy (highest honors) and classics.