Miller Center

A ‘Commitment to Strict Construction’

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Speaker: Sophia Lee
Date: December 7, 2012
Time: 12:30 PM
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The Conservative Workplace Constitution Divides the New Right Coalition

SOPHIA LEE is assistant professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.  Lee is a legal historian whose scholarship synthesizes labor, constitutional, and administrative law. She has written about administrative agencies’ role in shaping constitutional law, civil rights and labor advocates’ challenges to workplace discrimination during the early Cold War, and conservative legal movements in the post-New Deal era. Her publications appear in the Virginia Law Review and Law & History Review. She is currently working on a history of the workplace Constitution from the 1930s to the 1980s.

Please RSVP to gage@virginia.edu by noon on Wednesday, December 5.

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