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Sean Donahue

Titles

  • Adjunct Faculty

Degrees

  • JD, University of Chicago Law School

Biography

Donahue’s practice is focused on appellate litigation, with a focus on complex environmental and administrative law cases in federal and state appellate courts. He served as law clerk to then-D.C. Circuit Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and to Justice John Paul Stevens. After entering practice at Jenner & Block, he spent four years at the Appellate Section of the Department of Justice’s Environmental and Natural Resources Division. Since establishing his own practice in 2002, he has represented environmental and public health organization parties in numerous major environmental and clean energy cases in the Supreme Court and the courts of appeals. He has taught at Iowa College of Law, Washington & Lee University School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, and Stanford Law School. He received his JD degree from the University of Chicago Law School.

Expertise

  • Administrative Law
  • Environmental Law

Departments

  • Summer Session

Courses Taught

  • Federal Environmental Policy Under Trump II