User:SeanFiilFlynn

Sean Michael Fiil-Flynn is Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University, Washington College of Law.

Professor Flynn "teaches courses on the intersection of intellectual property, trade law, and human rights." 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."

"Prior to joining WCL, 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."

In legal practice before joining the American University Faculty, Flynn represented consumers and local governments as an attorney with the Washington D.C. based law firm Spiegel & McDiarmid. He served as senior attorney for the non-profit think tank Consumer Project on Technology. Flynn worked in research positions at the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice 1990-96, including the Housing and Civil Enforcement and Disability Rights Sections, and in the Office of the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Deval Patrick.

Flynn obtained his BA (Honors) in Political Studies from Pitzer College in 1992, and JD (Magna cum Laude) from Harvard Law School in 1999.