Sean G. Arthurs

Professor Arthurs graduated from the University of Notre Dame and was a member of the inaugural class of the Alliance for Catholic Education, a two-year volunteer program that places teachers in economically disadvantaged schools in the United States. Professor Arthurs earned a Masters of Arts in Teaching from the University of Portland and spent six years teaching in middle and high schools in Louisiana and Maryland. During this time, Professor Arthurs was awarded Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study the Irish Famine and the Middle Passage, earned a grant from the National Archives, and presented at teacher development programs operated by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Professor Arthurs also participated in the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program and spent one year teaching in an inner-city school on special measures in London, England.

Immediately prior to attending law school, Professor Arthurs worked as a human rights volunteer in Bogotá, Colombia with Peace Brigades International. Professor Arthurs attended the University of Cincinnati College of Law as an Arthur Russell Morgan Fellow and graduated summa cum laude from the College of Law. During law school, Professor Arthurs co-founded the Immigrant Community Legal Advocacy Center, served as a Teaching Assistant in Civil Procedure II, and was Managing Editor of the Law Review.

After law school, Professor Arthurs worked as a Skadden Fellow and staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society for Greater Cincinnati and organized the region’s first bilingual Legal Fair. Professor Arthurs then clerked for Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Before joining the Street Law Clinic, Professor Arthurs spent three years in the litigation department of Shearman & Sterling LLP where he worked on complex, international civil litigation, edited the FCPA Digest, and was awarded the Tahirih Justice Center’s first Pro Bono Attorney of the Year Award.