Sean McLernon is a Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, where he teaches in the Lawyering Program. He graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center and previously served as a litigation associate at Kelley Drye & Warren LLP in New York, representing a wide range of clients in various civil litigation matters including bankruptcy, intellectual property, employment, estates, consumer class actions, and commercial contract disputes. Professor McLernon has maintained an active pro bono practice, which involved habeas litigation for clients imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, filing claims on behalf of refugees detained and separated from their families seeking asylum, and advising victims of police misconduct. He has also taught courses on Lawyering and Legal Writing at Cardozo Law School and Introduction to Legal Analysis and Writing at Yale Law School. Before his legal career, he worked as a journalist for publications including Law360 and the York Daily Record/Sunday News and won several writing awards from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association and Virginia Press Association. Additionally, he served in the United States Peace Corps as a Municipal Community Development Agent in West Africa and as a Youth Development Advisor in the Caribbean. Professor McLernon is a member of the New York Bar and the Legal Writing Institute and is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for both the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.