Chichi Lee

Chichi Lee is a lecturer in legal practice at Yale Law School. Before joining Yale Law School, he served as a supervising assistant district attorney in the Appeals and Training Bureau at the Middlesex district attorney’s office in Massachusetts. As an appellate prosecutor, Lee briefed and argued cases before the Massachusetts Appeals Court and Supreme Judicial Court, including seminal cases in operation under the influence, crimmigration, murder, and human trafficking. He also handled post-conviction motions in the trial courts, including investigations of claims of factual innocence. Additionally, he assisted and directed investigations in a variety of cases, including homicides, with an emphasis on investigations involving search warrants and digital evidence. Lee also trained and supervised interns and prosecutors, as well as training and advising law enforcement officers in the law of searches, seizures, and digital evidence. 

Lee is an advisor to the Harvard Law School Mock Trial Association. He has also taught “Legal Research and Writing” at the Boston University School of Law, New England Law Boston, and Soochow Law School in Taiwan. Before his work at the Middlesex district attorney’s office, Lee served as an associate at P.M. Dubbeling, PLLC, where his practice focused on civil rights litigation. Lee earned his B.A. and LL.B. from Soochow University in Taipei, Taiwan, and his LL.M. from Duke University School of Law.