Jaime Alison Lee

Biography

Lee joined the faculty in 2011. She teaches Business Organizations, which focuses on the law of corporations, partnerships, LLC’s, and other entities and also directs the Community Development Clinic , in which law students represent community-oriented enterprises in transactional, regulatory, and other non-litigation matters. Lee was honored to receive the University of Baltimore's Saul Ewing Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Area of Transactional Law in 2013 and its AALS Teacher of the Year award in 2014. Lee’s scholarship focuses on barriers faced by low-income people within contemporary legal systems, analyzes how systems meant to benefit the poor are frequently subverted or distorted, and proposes ways to combat such subversion. Prior to joining the University of Baltimore faculty, Lee taught in the Community and Economic Development Law Clinic at American University, Washington College of Law and was a partner at a boutique law firm in Washington, D.C. specializing in federal affordable housing law, policy, finance, and public-private partnerships. Lee also clerked for Judge Marvin Katz in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, trained and served as a mediator, and was an editor of the Harvard Negotiation Law Review.

Research Interest

 Community Development Law Business Organizations Nonprofits, Small Businesses, Social Enterprises and Cooperatives Affordable Housing