Admissions

• California
• Maryland
• Virginia
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
• United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
• United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
• United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
• United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Memberships

• American Bar Association – Battle Space and Contingency Procurements Subcommittee (Vice Chair)
• Standing Committee on Law and National Security
• International Peace Operations Association – Government and Legal Affairs Committee (Co-Chair)

Publications

• Author, "Somalia's Forgotten Graves: The Mass Graves in Hargeisa Must Be Preserved," Journal of International Peace Operations, Volume 5, Number 4, January-February 2010
• Author, “War Crimes or Not Crimes – the Recent Misuse of MEJA Jurisdiction, ” DePaul University School of Law Rule of Law Journal, upcoming fall 2009
• "Contracting Under the SOFA," Journal of International Peace Operations, Volume 4, Number 4, January-February 2009
• Author, "SOFA Discards Contractors and the Rule of Law," The Jurist, December 4, 2008
• Author, "Don't Kick Contractors Off the Battlefield: Just Hold Them Accountable," The Jurist, April 24, 2008
• Author, "The Importance of Preserving Hargeysa’s Mass Graves," Somaliland Times, May 12, 2007, describing her April 2007 trip to Somalia to collect evidence of war crimes
• Co-author, "Can a Third Party Subpoena the Feds?" Legal Times, August 21, 2006
• Author, "The Tangled Web of Military Command Responsibility," op-ed, Los Angeles Times, August 4, 2004
• Author, "Perspectives on the State-Centric System of Traditional International Law and the Developing Jurisprudence of International Criminal Law," paper presented at Fifth Annual Royal Military College of Canada Conference on Ethical Leadership, November 4-6, 2003
• Author, "American Courts-Martial for Enemy War Crimes," 33 U. Balt. Law Rev. 49 (Fall 2004)
• Author, "Military Justice Jurisdiction: Forums at the Intersection of War and Justice," paper presented at 2003 Joint Services Conference on Professional Ethics, Anti-Terrorism Operations and Homeland Defense, January 30-31, 2003

Seminars

• Speaker, "Important legal trends impacting companies operating in Afghanistan," Afghanistan, Supporting Regional Stability Operations Conference, Washington, DC, October 26, 2009
• Speaker, "Redefining Inherently Governmental Functions," address delivered to the United Nations Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries, a subgroup of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, July 29, 2009
• Panelist, "McCain Conference on Public-Private Partnerships in National Defense," spoke on the legal implications and litigation issues related to contingency contracting, April 23-24, 2009
• Panelist, "US – Iraq SOFA: Uncomfortable for US Contractors?" ABA Section of Public Contract Law teleconference, January 15, 2009
• Addressed the US Department of Transportation / Maritime Administration (MARAD) Iraq/Afghanistan Logistics Working Group on December 2, 2008, and on April 28, 2009. MARAD invited Ms. Lee to deliver remarks, and answer questions from industry executives, regarding the new US/Iraq Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). The SOFA places US contractors operating in Iraq under Iraqi criminal and civil jurisdiction beginning January 1, 2009. Ms. Lee's December 2008 presentation covered the extent to which the new jurisdiction exposes contractors to significant new compliance and litigation risks, and her May 2009 presentation provided an update on litigation that has followed implementation of jurisdiction.
• Selected to participate in a panel discussion before the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, discussing contractor battlefield killings, June 21, 2008
• Panelist, "The Future of Private Security Contracting," Center for a New American Security, May 30, 2008
• Presenter, "A New Paradigm for Accountability and Control of Battlefield Contractors," National Security Law Conference, Wake Forest School of Law, May 23, 2008
• Panelist, KALW live radio call-in show, April 28, 2008. An MP3 of the broadcast is available at www.yourcallradio.org
• Participant, Terrorism Trials Colloquium co-sponsored by the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and RAND Corporation. Co-participants included agency heads and General Counsels from US DOJ, DOS, CIA, NSA, FBI and equivalent law enforcement and counterintelligence agencies of Australia and the United Kingdom, January 2008
• Chair and moderator, panel presentation, International Symposium for Military Ethics, January 30-31, 2007
• Delivered panel presentation, "Litigating Law of War Violations in Federal Civil Court," Public Interest Law Day Conference, Boalt Hall – UC Berkeley School of Law, September 30, 2006
• Coordinated a proposed series of joint USNA - Georgetown University Law Center conferences on civil-military relations, including drafting roundtable topics for the conference series and preparing the conference research proposal, "Civilian Soldiers, Profit Motives, and the Business Face of War: As the Privatized Military Industry Redraws the Line between the Public and Private Spheres, Is the Existing Domestic and International Regulatory Framework Adequate?" Spring 2003

Clerk Information

• Clerk to Honorable William B. Shubb, Eastern District of California