Environmental Leadership Program

Sean Dixon is the Coastal Policy Attorney with Clean Ocean Action, a New Jersey-based ocean pollution prevention non-profit organization.  At Clean Ocean Action, Sean works on New Jersey, New York, Atlantic Ocean, Federal, and International ocean issues.  

Sean graduated from Pace Law School’s Master of Laws (LLM) program in Climate Change Law, the first such program in the nation. Prior to his LLM, Sean earned his Juris Doctor (JD) with a certificate in environmental law and a Masters of Environmental Management (MEM) in a joint degree program between Pace Law School and the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Sean’s LLM and MEM thesis topics focused on how fisheries and ocean ecosystems are adapting to climate change and how we can better manage our marine resources into the future. Sean received his undergraduate degree from Boston University in the school’s Woods Hole Marine Program where he double majored in marine biology and earth sciences.  While an LLM student, Sean was also the first Graduate Research Fellow at Pace Law School’s Center for Environmental Legal Studies, working on New York State water policy issues and as the project manager for the International Judicial Institute for Environmental Courts and Tribunals. 

Before law school, Sean spent a year working on commercial fishing vessels in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska as a fisheries observer logging over 200 days at sea.  Sean is a member of the American Bar Association: Section of Energy, Environment, and Resources' Leadership Development Program, and, for the past two years, Sean has been a Lecturer at Yale University teaching courses on ocean policy and marine resource management.