Sarah Fox

Professor Sarah Fox’s scholarship focuses on the intersections of environmental law, property and land use, particularly the unique environmental issues facing cities and the capacity that local governments may have to solve those problems. She seeks to identify and deeply examine how environmental and land use choices respond to the interrelated problems of a changing climate and consumptive development, and, in turn, how those changes affect human populations. Her scholarly work draws on several areas in which she has also taught courses, including Environmental Law, Property, Land Use and Local Government.

Professor Fox is a cum laude graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, from which she was also awarded an L.L.M. in Advocacy, with honors. She holds a B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Oklahoma in International and Area Studies.

Prior to joining the Marquette faculty, Professor Fox was an Associate Professor at Northern Illinois University College of Law, where she received the NIU Law Board of Visitors Faculty Scholarship Excellence Award. She has also been a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Iowa Law School. She joined the NIU faculty following her time as a clinical teaching fellow in the environmental law clinic at Georgetown University Law Center, where she represented numerous non-profit organizational clients and supervised student work on cases addressing environmental issues in state and federal court.

Before entering legal academia, Professor Fox clerked for the Honorable Claire V. Eagan of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. She also engaged in private practice in New York with the law firms of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Jones Day.