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Sean Flynn

Associate Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property Professorial Lecturer in Residence

Office: 4910 Building - Suite 121
 Phone: 202-274-4157
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Sean Flynn teaches courses on the intersection of intellectual property, trade law, and human rights and is the Associate Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP). At PIJIP, Professor Flynn designs and manages a wide variety of research and advocacy projects that promote public interests in intellectual property and information law and coordinates PIJIP’s academic program, including events, student advising and curriculum development. Professor Flynn’s research examines legal frameworks promoting access to essential goods and services. He serves as counsel for advocacy organizations and state legislatures seeking to promote and defend regulations that promote access to essential medicines. (PIJIP).

Prior to joining WCL, Professor Flynn completed clerkships with Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson on the South African Constitutional Court and Judge Raymond Fisher on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He also represented consumers and local governments as a senior associate with Spiegel & McDiarmid and as senior attorney for the Consumer Project on Technology, served on the policy team advising then Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Deval Patrick, and taught Constitutional Law at the University of Witwaterstrand, South Africa.



Currently Teaching

Areas of Specialization

  • Community Development Law
  • Comparative Law
  • International Human Rights
  • International Intellectual Property
  • Intellectual Property

Degrees & Universities

  • J.D., Harvard Law School 1999 (magna cum laude)
  • B.A., Pitzer College (Claremont) 1992 (Political Science, honors)