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Degrees:
J.D., Harvard Law School
B.A., Amherst College
Sean Fitzpatrick teaches courses in public management, leadership, and American urban history and culture. Prior to joining the Trinity faculty, Professor Fitzpatrick was Director of Development Services for the City of Hartford under Mayor Luke Bronin, overseeing the city's planning and zoning, economic development, affordable housing, and code enforcement divisions. He also led the successful completion of the prior mayoral administration’s troubled stadium project, Dunkin’ Park. Fitzpatrick previously served as Chief of Staff to the Chairman of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, John Degnan, who was appointed to lead reform efforts at that agency in the wake of the 2013 Bridgegate scandal. Before entering government service, he spent two decades in the insurance industry, helping to establish one of Metro Hartford’s most successful insurance start-ups, Executive Risk, in the 1990s and later holding senior executive positions with Chubb and The Hartford. Fitzpatrick began his career in private law practice in Washington, DC, where he represented the federal deposit insurance agencies in trial and appellate litigation arising out of the savings and loan crisis.
From 2002 through 2011, Fitzpatrick served as a Lecturer at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he taught courses in professional liability and insurance law. From 2010 through 2018, he was an Adviser on the American Law Institute's inaugural Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance (2019). |
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Public Policy & Law
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Leadership
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Professional Ethics
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Urban Studies
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Insurance Law & Regulation
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Public Policy & Law
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Organizational Behavior
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American Urban History and Culture
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Insurance Law & Regulation
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PANELS AND PRESENTATIONS:
- "Urban Voters and the U.S. Constitution," Panel: "Why Cities Lose," ACADEMY OF LIFELONG LEARNING, Trinity College, October 2020.
- "A Tale of Two Stadiums: Lessons in Urban Revitalization from Dunkin' & Dillon," GLOBAL VANTAGE POINT LECTURE SERIES, Center for Urban and Global Studies, Trinity College, April 2020 [postponed due to COVID-19].
- “Diversity and Economic Development from the Municipal Perspective,” Panel: “Diversity in Urban Revitalization: From Academic Study to Policy-Making,” UNDERSTANDING REVITALIZATION, DIVERSITY & GENTRIFICATION IN NEW ENGLAND CITIES AND BEYOND, Center for Urban and Global Studies, Trinity College, March 2020.
- Moderator, Panel: “Analytics in Securities Litigation: Changing Models for a Changing World,” Professional Liability Underwriting Society, PLUS 26th International Conference, Nov. 2013.
- Commentator on Richard Squire’s “How Collective Settlements Camouflage the Costs of Shareholder Lawsuits,” SIXTH EUGENE P. AND DELIA S. MURPHY CONFERENCE ON CORPORATE LAW: EMERGING ISSUES IN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, Fordham Law School, May 2012.
- “D&O Insurance: A History,” Panel: “D&O Insurance by the Number$,” Connecticut Bar Association, Insurance Practice Section, Feb. 2011.
- Moderator, Panel: “The State of the Insurance Market,” Professional Liability Underwriting Society/Insurance Law Center, University of Connecticut School of Law, Dec. 2010.
- “A Bridge Too Far: Issues in D&O Policy Design,” Panel: ”How D&O Insurance Transforms Securities Litigation,” Professional Liability Underwriting Society, PLUS 23rd International Conference, Nov. 2010.
- Moderator, Panel: “Tort Reform in Reverse: A Banner Year for E&O Plaintiffs,” Professional Liability Underwriting Society, PLUS 22nd International Conference, Nov. 2009.
- Moderator, Panel: “The Sub-Prime Crisis and Its Effect on the Professional Liability Market,” Professional Liability Underwriting Society/Insurance Law Center, University of Connecticut School of Law, May 2008.
- “Developments in the Regulation of Insurance Intermediaries,” Panel: “Insurance Intermediaries: Duties, Conflicts and Compensation,” REASSESSING OUR ROLE AS SCHOLARS AND EDUCATORS IN LIGHT OF CHANGE, Association of American Law Schools-Annual Meeting, Jan. 2008.
- Moderator, Panel: "How Do Insurers Manage the Securities Litigation Process?" D&O INSURANCE: SHAREHOLDERS' FRIEND OR FOE?, Insurance Law Center, University of Connecticut School of Law, April 2007.
- Moderator, Panel: "Putting a Premium on Good Corporate Governance," BEYOND LEGAL: A BUSINESS APPROACH TO CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, American Bar Association, Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section-Corporate Governance Institute, May 2007.
- "Directors' & Officers' Liability Insurance-A Primer," AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, Judicial Education Program, Judicial Symposium on Insurance and Risk Allocation in America: Economics, Law and Regulation, Washington, DC, September 2006.
- "The Importance of Mistakes" [co-written with John Cleese], Keynote, AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, Professional Liability Underwriting Society ["PLUS"] 17th International Conference, Nov. 2004.
- "The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Directors' Duties," THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, American Conference Institute, ACI 9th Annual Conference on D&O Liability Insurance, Dec. 2003.
- "A Behavioral View of Insurance Underwriting Cycles," THE FUTURE OF THE TORT LIABILITY AND INSURANCE SYSTEMS, American Bar Association, ABA Annual Meeting, Aug. 2003.
- "Observations on Underwriting Cycles," Panel: "Tort Law and the Underwriting Cycle," VISION 20/20 INSTITUTE, Insurance Law Center, University of Connecticut School of Law, March 2003.
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- Received the Professional Liability Underwriting Society’s 2010 "Founders Award" for spearheading the development of a new curriculum for the Society’s Registered Professional Liability Underwriter (“RPLU”) designation.
- Named 2000 "Business Leader of the Year" by the Simsbury (CT) Chamber of Commerce in recognition of service as Chair of the town's Economic Development Commission.
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