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Sheila Foster
Vice Dean, Albert A. Walsh Professor of Law, Co-Director Stein Center for Law & Ethics


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Fordham University School of Law
140 West 62nd Street
New York, NY 10023 		Email: SFOSTER@law.fordham.edu
Telephone: 212-636-7771
Fax: 212-636-6921
Office: Room 110

Books:
  • Comparative Equality Law: Cases, Codes, Constitutions, and Commentary (Foundation Press, forthcoming 2012) (with David Oppenheimer and Sora Han)
  • The Law of Environmental Justice: Theories and Procedures to Address Disproportionate Risks (ABA, 2008)(with Michael Gerrard)
  • From the Ground Up: Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement (NYU Press, 2001) (co-authored with Luke Cole of the Center for Race, Poverty and the Environment at California Rural Legal Services)

Articles:

  • Breaking up Payday: Zoning, Retail Agglomerations and Consumer Welfare (work-in-progress)
  • The Mobility Case for Regionalism 47 UC Davis Law Review ___ (2013) (with Nestor Davidson)
  • Collective Action and the Urban Commons, 87 Notre Dame Law Review (forthcoming 2011)
  • Integrative Lawyering: Navigating the Political Economy of Urban Redevelopment, 95 California Law Review 1999 (2007)(with Brian Glick)
  • The City as an Ecological Space: Social Capital and Urban Land Use, 82 Notre Dame Law Review 527 (2006)
  • Causation in Antidiscrimination Law: Beyond Intent vs. Impact, 41 Houston Law Review 1469 (2005)
  • The World Trade Organization's Anti-Discrimination Jurisprudence: Free Trade, National Sovereignty and Environmental Health in the Balance, 15 Georgetown International Environmental Law Journal 633(2003)
  • Environmental Justice in an Era of Devolved Collaboration, 26 Harvard Environmental Law Review 459 (2002)
  • Intent and Incoherence, 72 Tulane Law Review 1065 (1998)
  • Justice From the Ground Up: Distributive Inequities, Grassroots Resistance and the Transformative Politics of The Environmental Justice Movement, 86 California Law Review 775 (1998)
  • Difference and Equality: A Critical Assessment of the Concept of 'Diversity', 1993 Wisconsin Law Review 105.

Essays and Commentary:

  • The Social Function of Property: A Comparative Perspective (Introduction to Symposium), forthcoming  80 Fordham Law Review ___  (2011)
  • Environmental Justice and the Constitution, 39 Environmental Law Reporter, 10347 (2009)
  • Urban Informality as a Commons Dilemma, 40 U. Miami Inter-American L.R. 261 (2009)
  • Introduction: Forty Years of Loving: Confronting Issues of Race, Sexuality, and the Family in the Twenty-First Century, 76 Fordham Law Review 2669 (2008) (with R.A. Lenhardt, Elizabeth Cooper, & Sonia Katyal) 
  • Foreword: Critical Race Lawyering, 73 Fordham Law Review 2027 (2005)
  • Rawls, Race and Reason, 72 Fordham Law Review 1715 (2004) (Symposium)
  • From Harlem to Havana: Sustainable Urban Development, 16 Tulane Environmental Law Journal 783(2003)(symposium)
  • Meeting the Environmental Justice Challenge: Evolving Norms in Environmental Decision Making, 30 Environmental Law Reporter 10992 (November 2000).
  • Piercing the Veil of Economic Arguments Against Title VI Enforcement, 10 Fordham Environmental Law Journal 331 (2000) (symposium talk)
  • The Symbolism of Rights and the Costs of Symbolism: Some Thoughts on the Campaign For Same-Sex Marriage, 7 Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review 319 (1998) (symposium talk)
  • Race(ial) Matters: The Quest for Environmental Justice, 20 Ecology Law Quarterly 721 (1994) (review essay)
  • Community and Identity in a Postmodern World, 7 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 181 (1992) (review essay).

Book Chapters:

  • "The Racial Subject in Legal Theory" (with R. A. Lenhardt) in Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics (Keith E. Whittington, R. Daniel Kelemen, Gregory A. Caldeira, eds, 2007)
  • "Race, Agency, and Equal Protection: A Retrospective on the Warren Court" in Earl Warren and The Warren Court: The Legacy in American and Foreign Law Harry N. Scheiber, ed.) (Lexington Press, 2006).
  • "Environmental Racism: Its Causes and Solutions" in Handbook of Black American Health (2nd Edition): Policies and Issues Behind Disparities In Health (Greenwood Press, 2004) (Ivor Livingston, ed.)
  • "Environmental Justice in an Era of Devolved Collaboration" in Justice and Natural Resources: Concepts, Strategies and Applications (Island Press 2001) (Kathryn M. Mutz, Garcy C. Bryner, Douglas S. Kenney, eds.)