Sean E. Andrussier
Senior Lecturing Fellow
Sean Andrussier co-directs Duke's Appellate Litigation Clinic and teaches Legal Analysis, Research and Writing.
Before joining Duke's faculty, Mr. Andrussier was co-chair of the appellate practice group of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC. Mr. Andrussier's practice concentrated on constitutional law, appellate practice and procedure, and complex civil litigation. Before joining Womble Carlyle, Mr. Andrussier was an appellate lawyer in Washington, DC, where he worked with Theodore B. Olson (42nd Solicitor General of the United States) in the Appellate and Constitutional Law practice group of Gibson Dunn and Crutcher LLP. Before that, he practiced with Hogan & Hartson LLP, also in Washington. Mr. Andrussier served three years as a federal judicial law clerk, first for Judge M. Blane Michael of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, then for Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Mr. Andrussier is a member of the Appellate Rules Committee of the North Carolina Bar Association, which crafts proposed amendments to the State’s rules of appellate procedure.
Mr. Andrussier received his J. D. from Duke Law School in 1992, with High Honors and membership in the Order of the Coif.