Sarah Fox is an associate professor at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Her research focuses on environmental law and land use, particularly the unique environmental issues facing cities and the capacity that local governments may have to solve those problems. In consequence, her work has highlighted the importance of local action on a variety of environmental health and safety issues, and, necessarily, the preemption barriers that often face local governments trying to take that kind of action. Prof. Fox previously 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, and was also a litigation associate in the New York offices of Jones Day and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP.