Research Fellow

Program on the Legal Profession
Harvard Law School
23 Everett Street #G-24
Cambridge, MA 02138

Narrative

Sean Williams joined the program as a Research Fellow following two years as a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School.  As part of the Program’s Corporate Purchasing Project, he is currently interviewing general counsels at Fortune 500 pharmaceutical companies to ascertain how they hire, fire, and manage outside counsel.  Sean brings both legal and survey experience to the Center.  Prior to attending law school at the University of Chicago, Sean worked as a statistical programmer for The Urban Institute and the National Institutes of Health.

Mr. Williams has published three papers on adolescent health issues and contributed to many other public health research projects.  After law school, he clerked for Judge Cynthia Hall on the Ninth Circuit and then came toHarvard Law School as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law.  As a Climenko Fellow he taught Legal Writing to first year law students.  His most recent legal publication, Postnuptial Agreements, is forthcoming in the Wisconsin Law Review.

Education

JD, University of Chicago Law School, 2004

BA in Sociology, Haverford College, 1995

Prior Courses Taught

Legal Research and Writing, 2005-07

Publications

Postnuptial Agreements, Forthcoming in Wisconsin Law Review (2008)

The Parallel Trends of Increased Adult Content in Mainstream Media and Harder-Core Pornography: A Tale of Market Failure?, in 1 Carceral Notebooks 61 (Bernard Harcourt ed., 2005)

Multiple Threats: The Co-Occurrence of Teen Health Risk Behaviors (2000), with Laura D. Lindberg & Scott Boggess

Teen Risk-Taking: A Statistical Portrait (2000), with Laura Lindberg, Scott Boggess & Laura Porter

Involving Males in Preventing Teen Pregnancy (1997), with Freya Sonenstein, Kellie Stewart, Laura Lindberg & Marta Pernas