Sarah Fox

Sarah Fox is an associate professor at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Her research focuses on environmental law, land use, and property, particularly the unique environmental issues facing cities and the capacity that local governments may have to solve those problems. She teaches courses in environmental law, state and local government law, and property. 

Fox received her B.A. from the University of Oklahoma and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. Following law school, she clerked for the Honorable Claire V. Eagan in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma and worked in the New York offices of Jones Day and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. Prior to teaching at NIU, she was 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.