Dr. Sean Anderson

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Sean Anderson is a Teaching Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, specializing in employee benefits law, estates and trusts, legal writing, and advocacy. With a decade of experience in legal practice, he has served as a law clerk for the Honorable Walter J. Cummings on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and has worked as a trial and appellate litigator in firms across Chicago and Peoria, Illinois. He has published articles on employee benefits law in prestigious journals including the Tax Lawyer, the ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law, and the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal. Alongside his teaching duties, he has contributed as a co-editor of the annual supplements for the leading casebook, Pension and Employee Benefit Law, and has authored various works relating to ERISA litigation. He holds a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the California Law Review, and a B.A. from Bucknell University, with graduate studies undertaken at the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought. Professor Anderson has been admitted to practice in Illinois (inactive) and in multiple federal district courts.

Research Interests

Courses

Employee Benefits Decedents’ Estates Trusts Introduction to Advocacy Legal Writing

Requirements for University of Illinois

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
IELTS
Listening
Required:7
Reading
Required:7
Writing
Required:7
Speaking
Required:7
Overall
Required:7.5
TOEFL
Listening
Required:17
Reading
Required:19
Writing
Required:21
Speaking
Required:20
Total
Required:103
GRE General
Prerequisites
Mathematical background Linear Algebra Calculus
Application Checklist
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  • Academic Statement of Purpose
  • Resume/CV
Specialization Notes

GRE is optional for admission to all graduate programs in Statistics. Full status admission requires higher language scores than limited status.