Professor

Yoon-Ho

Alex

Lee

Alex Lee is the Howard Friedman ’64 JD Professor of Law at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and Director of the Center on Law, Business, and Economics. His scholarship focuses on securities regulation and administrative law, drawing on economic theory and empirical methods to study regulatory design, cost-benefit analysis, and the interaction between markets and public institutions.

Professor Lee previously served as Senior Counsel in the Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and as an Economic Fellow in the SEC’s Office of Economic Analysis. His work has appeared in leading law reviews and peer-reviewed journals and has been cited in federal agency rulemakings. He clerked for the Honorable Thomas B. Griffith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Professor Lee received his B.A., summa cum laude, in Mathematics from Harvard College, completed Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at the University of Cambridge, and earned his J.D. from Yale Law School and his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University.