Taeku Lee

Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley School of Law

Taeku Lee is Professor of Law in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Lee is also Associate Director of the Haas Institute at Berkeley, Managing Director of Asian American Decisions, Co-Principal Investigator of the National Asian American Survey, and currently Treasurer and on the Executive Council for the American Political Science Association. He also serves on the Board of Overseers of the American National Election Studies and the General Social Survey, and sits on the National Advisory Committee for the U.S. Census Bureau.

Lee’s published monographs include Mobilizing Public Opinion (2002); Transforming Politics, Transforming America (2006); Why Americans Don’t Join the Party (2011); Accountability through Public Opinion(2011); Asian American Political Participation (2011); and Oxford Handbook of Racial and Ethnic Politics(2015). He was previously Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Harvard, Robert Wood Johnson Scholar at Yale, Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute, and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Lee was born in South Korea, grew up in Malaysia, Manhattan, and Michigan, and is a proud graduate of K-12 public schools, the University of Michigan (A.B.), Harvard University (M.P.P.), and the University of Chicago (Ph.D.).