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Sean Flynn Adjunct Professor WCL Adjunct Faculty

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

Bio

Professor Flynn teaches courses on the intersection of intellectual property, trade law, and human rights and is 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 the public interest in intellectual property and information law and coordinates PIJIP鈥檚 academic program. Professor Flynn Chairs the Global Expert Network on Copyright User Rights and is a founding member of the Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest. He is Editor in Chief of Infojustice.org, a leading public interest law and policy blog. Professor Flynn serves as Principal Investigator of PIJIP鈥檚 project on the Right to Research and International Copyright. He is visiting Scholar at the University of Amsterdam鈥檚 Institute for Information Law (IViR) and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cape Town鈥檚 Intellectual Property Unit.



Prior to joining WCL, Professor Flynn completed a Fulbright Fellowship, was clerk to Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson, South African Constitutional Court and Judge Raymond Fisher, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, practiced law at Spiegel & McDiarmid and the Consumer Project on Technology, and served on the policy team advising then Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Deval Patrick.

See Also
Areas of Specialization
International Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property
Copyright Law
Health Law
International Human Rights/Humanitarian Law
International Organizations
International Trade Law
Internet and Computer Law
Law and Development
Patent Law
Technology Law
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Area of Expertise

International intellectual property agreements; U.S. and international pharmaceutical policy; AIDS drugs in Africa and developing countries; international trade law; social and economic rights in developing countries; human rights in South Africa

Additional Information

Biography 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鈥檚 academic program. 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 Witwatersrand, South Africa.

For the Media

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