Sarah Fox
Title: | Associate Professor of Law |
Office Location: | Swen Parson 195A |
Office Phone: | 815-753-0285 |
Email: | sarah.fox@niu.edu |
Education: | B.A., University of Oklahoma J.D., Georgetown University Law Center L.L.M., Georgetown University Law Center |
Sarah Fox joined the NIU Law faculty in 2017. Her primary research and teaching interests are at the intersections of environmental law, property and land use. Before coming to NIU, she worked 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. She was also a litigation associate in the New York offices of Jones Day and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, and clerked for the Honorable Claire V. Eagan of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
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.
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Publications
- The United States of America, in Edward Elgar Handbook On Cities And Climate Change Law (Anél du Plessis & Cathrin Zengerling, eds.) (forthcoming Edward Elgar 2024) (invited contribution)
- Soil Governance and Private Property, __ Utah L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2024)
- Climate Changed Communities, in Adapting to High-Level Warming: Equity, Governance, and Law, Environmental Law Institute (forthcoming 2023) (invited contribution)
- A Research Agenda for Sustainable Land Use Policy and Planning (chapter), in A Research Agenda for Land Use and Planning Law: US and Comparative Perspectives (Sarah Schindler & John Infranca, eds.) (forthcoming Edward Elgar, Elgar Research Agenda Series 2023)
- The Prospect and Perils of Climate Preemption for Public Health, Northeastern University Law Review (forthcoming 2023).
- Adapting to a 4º World, 52 Env't L. Rep. 10211 (with Karrigan Bork et al.) (2022).
- How the Biden Administration Can Empower Local Climate Action, 51 Urb. Law. 203 (2021).
- Why Localizing Climate Federalism Matters (Even) During a Biden Administration, 99 Texas L. Rev. Online 122 (2021)
- Localizing Environmental Federalism, 54 UC Davis L. Rev. 133 (2020).
- Principles of Home Rule for the Twenty-First Century, National League of Cities; Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2020-16; Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3539617 (February 12, 2020) (with Richard Briffault et al.).
- Environmental Gentrification, 90 U. Colo. L. Rev. 803 (2019).
- Home Rule in an Era of Local Environmental Innovation, 44 Ecology L. Q. 575 (2017).
- Planning for Density in a Driverless World, 9 Ne. U. L. R. 151 (2017).
- This is Adaptation: Elimination of Subsidies under the National Flood Insurance Program, 39 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 205 (2014).
- CERCLA, Institutional Controls, and the Legacy of Urban Industrial Use, 42 Envtl. L. 1211 (2012).
- A Climate of Change: Shifting Environmental Concerns and Property Law Norms through the Lens of LEED Building Standards, 28 Va. Envtl. L.J. 299 (2010).
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