Professor Sarah Fox was among a group of expert panelists for the program, “Urban Gentrification and Environmental Justice: Land Use, Climate, and Social Equity in America’s Cities.” Hosted by Fordham’s Urban Law Center and the Masters of the Environment Program at the University of Colorado Boulder, this roundtable featured leading legal and urban planning scholars. The discussion addressed the vital question of what U.S. cities can do to mitigate the gentrifying effects of improved environmental quality on low-income and people of color communities, integrating land use, housing, and climate policies to achieve equitable, sustainable results.
Professor 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.
