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Sarah Fox is an Associate Professor of Law at Marquette University Law School, where her scholarship centers on the intersections of environmental law, property, and land use, with a particular focus on urban environmental challenges and local government authority in addressing climate change and consumptive development.
Her research examines how environmental and land use decisions impact human populations amid a changing climate, drawing from her teaching in Environmental Law, Property, Land Use, and Local Government. These areas reflect her interdisciplinary approach to legal solutions for sustainable urban development.
Professor Fox earned her J.D. cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where she also completed an L.L.M. in Advocacy with honors. She received her B.A. summa cum laude in International and Area Studies from the University of Oklahoma.
She has held faculty positions at Northern Illinois University College of Law, where she was recognized with the Faculty Scholarship Excellence Award, and served as a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Iowa Law School. Prior to academia, she clerked for Judge Claire V. Eagan of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma and practiced law at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Jones Day in New York.
- NIU Law Board of Visitors Faculty Scholarship Excellence Award
Before joining Marquette, Professor Fox was a clinical teaching fellow at Georgetown University Law Center’s environmental law clinic, where she represented nonprofit clients and supervised student litigation in environmental cases. This experience underscores her commitment to experiential learning and public interest law. Though no specific grants are mentioned, her scholarly focus suggests engagement with policy-oriented legal research and potential funding in environmental and urban law domains.
She has not been affiliated with any named research labs or formal research teams in the provided text, but her clinical and teaching background indicates leadership in practical legal education initiatives.
