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Sarah J. Morath

Sarah J. Morath

Professor of Law
Associate Dean for International Affairs

Sarah Morath teaches legal writing to JD and international LLM students. She also teaches courses on Food Law, Environmental Justice, and Animal Law. Professor Morath's research interests include environmental law, food law, animal law, and legal writing. Her book, Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It (Cambridge University Press 2022), received the 2023 Nautilus Silver Award. Her scholarship has appeared in top law journals as well as in The Hill, The Conversation, Grist, and The Regulatory Review. Professor Morath is on the editorial board of the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute and is the past chair of the Animal Law and Agriculture and Food Law … Read more »

Sarah Morath teaches legal writing to JD and international LLM students. She also teaches courses on Food Law, Environmental Justice, and Animal Law. Professor Morath's research interests include environmental law, food law, animal law, and legal writing. Her book, Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It (Cambridge University Press 2022), received the 2023 Nautilus Silver Award. Her scholarship has appeared in top law journals as well as in The Hill, The Conversation, Grist, and The Regulatory Review. Professor Morath is on the editorial board of the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute and is the past chair of the Animal Law and Agriculture and Food Law Sections of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS).

Professor Morath was formerly on the faculties of the University of Houston Law Center and the University of Akron School of Law. Before joining academia, she clerked for Chief Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr., of the U.S. District Court of Maine; Justice Andrew M. Mead, of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court; and four justices of the Maine Superior Judicial Court.


Education

  • JD, University of Montana School of Law, 2007
  • MES, Yale University, 2000
  • BA, Vassar College, 1998

Courses

LAW 110 Legal Analysis, Writing and Research I
LAW 119 Legal Analysis, Writing and Research II
LAW 121 Legal Analysis, Writing and Research for International Lawyers
LAW 380 Environmental Justice LAWR III
LAW 498 Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Law

Publications

Books

  • Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It (Cambridge University Press 2022).
  • Editor, Farm to Fork: Perspectives in Sustainable Food Systems in the Twenty-First Century (University of Akron Press 2016).

Articles

Other

Media

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Sarah J. Morath
Contact Information
 336.758.5603

Worrell 3334
Expertise
  • Animal Welfare
  • Appellate Law & Practice
  • Environmental Law & Justice
  • Food Law & Policy
  • Law Teaching
  • Legal Writing & Research
  • Sustainability
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