Sean M. Anderson

Visiting Assistant Professor

Phone: 217-244-8256 Email: seanimal@illinois.edu B.A. Bucknell University J.D. Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley Courses Legal Writing and Analysis Introduction to Advocacy Employee Benefits Decedents' Estates and Trusts Vita

Professor Anderson joined the law school faculty in 2007 after practicing law for nine years with firms in Chicago and Peoria, Illinois. His research interests include employee benefit plan policy and regulation, and intersections between that subject and other areas of the law.  He has written about regulation of employee stock ownership plans and is currently writing about how ideas from the law of contracts relate to remedies available under ERISA, the federal statute that regulates employee benefit plans. Professor Anderson’s practice experience consisted of trial and appellate litigation in a variety of subject areas, including ERISA, insurance coverage, employment discrimination, and contract disputes.  Professor Anderson is currently Of Counsel to the Peoria firm of Sutkowski & Rhoads Ltd.  He is admitted to practice in Illinois and in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and a number of federal district courts. Professor Anderson received his B.A. from Bucknell University and pursued graduate studies in the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought.  He received his J.D. from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and Editor-in-Chief of the California Law Review.  After graduation, Professor Anderson served as a law clerk to the Honorable Walter J. Cummings of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Recent Publications: "Risky Retirement Business: How ESOPs Harm the Workers They are Supposed to Help" Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 08-19; Loyola (Chicago) Law Journal, Vol. 41, 2009