Jaime Alison Lee

Professor of Law; Associate Dean for Experiential Education; Director, Community Development Clinic, University of Baltimore

Chapter Leader: Maryland-Washington, D.C. SSN

Areas of Expertise:

Governance

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About Jaime

The Baltimore Right to Water Coalition crafted a law making water affordable and creating a new agency reform structure (now being implemented) based on my participatory governance research. My experiential learning course (law clinic) explores the role of lawyers in civic engagement and in creating anti-subordination systems. My law clinic class is experiential, meaning that we serve clients and policy organizations throughout the state.

Contributions | No Jargon Podcast | In the News | Publications

In the News

Interviewed in "Water Justice and the Constituent Empowerment Model," People Places Planet Podcast, September 14, 2022.

Opinion: "Use ARPA Funding To Ensure Water Affordability in Baltimore," Jaime Alison Lee (with Rianna Eckel and Amy Hennen), The Baltimore Sun, March 18, 2022.

Opinion: "Water, Water, (Not) Everywhere," Jaime Alison Lee, University of Baltimore School of Law Magazine, September 15, 2021.

Quoted by Emily Sullivan in "Activists Plead Scott To Follow Promise To Remove Some Homeowners From Tax Sale," WYPR News, April 30, 2021.

Publications

"Turning Participation Into Power: A Water Justice Case Study" Environmental Law Reporter 52, no. 8 (2022).

Sets forth a model, now being implemented in Baltimore City, for using public input to reform a governmental agency and make it more responsive to its constituents.

"From Socrates to Selfies: Legal Education and the Metacognitive Revolution" Drexel Law Review (2020).

Identifies metacognitive self-reflection as a strategy for intellectual growth that is profoundly reshaping legal education.

"'Can You Hear Me Now?': Making Participatory Governance Work for the Poor" Harvard Law & Policy Review 7, no. 2 (2013): 405-441.

Identifies core components of systems that promote meaningful (not merely cosmetic) public engagement in the creation and reform of law and policy.