Professor of Law
B.S., Butler University
J.D., Harvard University Law School
E-mail:
GLee@widener.edu Phone: 717.541.3940
Greg Randall Lee is Professor of Law at Widener's Harrisburg campus. Professor Lee received a B.S. from Butler University in 1980, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1983, where he served as Managing Editor, Harvard Environmental Law Review.
Following graduation from law school, Professor Lee served as an Instructor at Villanova from 1983-84, Instructor at Pittsburgh from 1984-87, and Visiting Assistant Professor at Pittsburgh from 1987-89.
Professor Lee joined the faculty at Widener in 1989 as Visiting Assistant Professor and served in that capacity from 1989-90. He served as Assistant Professor of Law from 1990-92, Associate Professor of Law from 1992-1999, and as Professor of Law since July 1999. Professor Lee teaches and writes in the areas of Torts, Professional Responsibility, Advanced Torts, and Constitutional Law.
Professor Lee, a former Chairperson of the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Professional Responsibility, currently serves as that Section's newsletter editor. He has spoken at judicial conferences of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth and Superior Courts and the Pennsylvania Trial Judges Association and has also done numerous programs for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. Professor Lee has advised organizations such as the Pennsylvania Office of Mental Health on disability issues. He teaches Red Cross Swimming and religious education, visits local nursing homes, and organizes holiday bags for shelter residents. He taught a law course for home schoolers and reviewed law school accreditation issues for Franciscan University.
Selected Recent Publications Articles
- “A Rose by any Other Word Would Smell as Sweet,” But Would It Still Be Treasured: The Mislabeling and Misunderstanding of Parents and Grandparents in American Policy, 15 Elder L.J. 607 (2007).
- Reflecting on Negligence Law and the Catholic Experience: Comparing Apples to Elephants, 20 St. Thomas L. Rev. 3 (2007)
- "Nineteenth Century Visions of a Twenty-First Century Bar: Were Dickens's Expectations too Great?, 15 Widener L.J. 283 (2006) (AALS sponsored program)
- "Who's Afraid of William Shakespeare?: Confronting Our Concepts of Justice and Mercy in The Merchant of Venice, 32 U. Dayton L. Rev. 1 (2006).
- "Judaism and John Paul II: Coming to Grips with what Law Means in the Hands of God," 45 J. Cath. Leg. Stud. 415 (2006)
- A Law Professor on Being Fashioned, 49 Widener L.J. 367 (2005) (AALS sponsored program).
- Dorothy Day and Innovative Social Justice: A View from Inside the Box, 12 William & Mary 187 (2005).
- An Introduction to The Lawyer as Poet Advocate: Bruce Springsteen and the American Lawyer, 14 Widener L.J. 719 (2005).
- Bruce Springsteen's Hope and the Lawyer as Poet Advocate, 14 Widener L.J. 867 (2005).
- Lessons to Be Learned, Lessons to Be Lived Out: Catholicism at the Crossroads of Judaism and American Legalism, 49 St. Louis L. Rev. 367 (2005)
Other
- The Continuing Moral Fashioning of a Law Professor, Orange county law., June 2005, at 18
- A Tribute to my Friend David Orgon Coolidge, 11 Widener J. Pub. L. 353 (2002).
- Epilogue, in Recovering Self-Evident Truths: Catholic perspectives on American Law (Michael Scaperlanda & Teresa Stanton Collett eds. 2007).
- Finding Marriage Amidst a Sea of Confusion: A Precursor to Considering the Public Purposes of Marriage, in The Law of Marriage (2007).