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Sean Flynn

Associate Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property

 

Office: 4910 Building - Suite 120
Phone: 202-274-4157
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Professor Flynn teaches courses on the intersection of intellectual property and human rights. Mr. Flynn is also the Associate Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP).

Professor Flynn’s primary research focus is on legal frameworks governing access to essential goods and services, including constitutional and human rights law, intellectual property law, utility regulation, antitrust and consumer protection law.

Prior to joining American University, Mr. Flynn completed clerkships with Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson on the South African Constitutional Court and with Judge Raymond Fisher on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Mr. Flynn also represented consumers and local governments in private practice with the law firm Spiegel & McDiarmid and as Senior Attorney for the Consumer Project on Technology in Washington D.C.

Mr. Flynn has taught Advanced Topics in Constitutional Law at the University of Witwaterstrand, South Africa, and Legal Reasoning and Argument at Harvard Law School. He is author of numerous published articles and book chapters on rights to access to medicines, water and other essential goods and services.

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