Lee Kovarsky

Lee B. Kovarsky is an American legal scholar.

Kovarsky was raised in Houston, and grew up as a fan of the Houston Astros Major League Baseball team. He graduated with a degree in political science and economics from Yale College. He then worked for a startup and planned to go to film school. Instead, he completed a J. D. at the University of Virginia School of Law, became a clerk for Jerry Edwin Smith, and worked in appellate law.{{cite news |last1=Simon |first1=Jeremy |title=Meet Lee Kovarsky |url=https://law.utexas.edu/news/2023/10/26/meet-lee-kovarsky/ |access-date=16 March 2025 |publisher=University of Texas School of Law |date=26 October 2023}}{{cite news |title=Lee Kovarsky |url=https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/lee-kovarsky/biography/ |access-date=16 March 2025 |publisher=University of Texas School of Law}}

Kovarsky returned to academia with a three-year stint as acting assistant professor at the New York University School of Law, then joined the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law for ten years before moving to the University of Texas School of Law in 2020, where he was later appointed Bryant Smith Chair in Law.

In 2020, Kovarsky was elected a member of the American Law Institute.{{cite news |title=Elected Member Professor Lee B. Kovarsky |url=https://www.ali.org/profile/2587 |access-date=16 March 2025 |publisher=American Law Institute}}{{cite news |title=ALI Elects 38 New Members |url=https://www.ali.org/news/articles/ali-elects-39-new-members |access-date=16 March 2025 |publisher=American Law Institute |date=14 July 2020}}