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Sean McLernon serves as a Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor of Law in the Lawyering Program at Cornell Law School, Cornell University, where he teaches Lawyering & Legal Writing. He previously taught at Cardozo Law School and Yale Law School. Before academia, he worked as a litigation associate at Kelley Drye & Warren LLP in New York handling bankruptcy, intellectual property, employment, estates, consumer class actions, and commercial contract disputes.
His educational background includes graduating cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to law school, he worked as a journalist for Law360, the York Daily Record/Sunday News, and the Charlottesville Daily Progress, and served in the United States Peace Corps as a Municipal and Community Development Agent in West Africa and Youth Development Advisor in the Caribbean.
Professor McLernon's professional focus centers on legal writing and civil litigation with specialized expertise in habeas corpus (including Guantanamo Bay detainees), asylum law for separated refugee families, and police misconduct cases. His journalism background and Peace Corps service inform his interdisciplinary approach to legal education and advocacy.
His professional recognitions include:
- Writing Award from Pennsylvania Newspaper Association
- Writing Award from Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors
- Writing Award from Virginia Press Association
