Professor Seaman teaches legal writing and intellectual property litigation at
Chicago-Kent. He joined the faculty from the law firm of Sidley Austin LLP, where he was
an associate in the firm's intellectual property litigation practice group from 2005
to 2009. At Sidley, his practice focused on patent, copyright, and trade secret
litigation. In addition to intellectual property law, Professor Seaman's academic
interests include election law and constitutional law.
Professor Seaman earned his J.D. degree in 2004 from the University of Pennsylvania Law
School. While there, he served as Executive Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law
Review and received the Edwin R. Keedy Award for the most scholarly contribution to the
law review. He clerked for the Honorable R. Barclay Surrick of the U.S. District Court
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 2004 to 2005. From 2007 to 2009, Professor
Seaman taught legal writing as an adjunct professor at Loyola University Chicago School
of Law. Professor Seaman graduated from Swarthmore College in 2000 with a bachelor’s
degree in history and a minor in public policy.
