Sarah Morath is an Assistant Professor of Legal Writing at The University of Akron School of Law. Before joining Akron Law in 2010, Professor Morath worked as a Judicial Law Clerk to The Honorable John A. Woodcock, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine. In addition, she also clerked for The Honorable Andrew M. Mead of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and for five Superior Court Justices of the Maine Superior Judicial Court. Professor Morath received her B.A. from Vassar College, where she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, her Masters of Environmental Studies from Yale University and her J.D. from the University of Montana School of Law. She has a published article in the 2008 edition of the Public Land and Resources Law Review entitled “The Endangered Species Act: A New Avenue for Climate Change Litigation?” Professor Morath is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association.
Articles
A Mild Winter: The Status of Environmental Preliminary Injunctions, Seattle U. L. Rev (2013)
Since enactment of environmental legislation in the 1970s, the preliminary injunction standard articulated by the...
It's Not All Statistics: Demystifying Empirical Research, The Second Draft (2013)
Although Oliver Wendell Holmes was touting the merits of empirical research over one hundred years...
Motions in Motions: Teaching Advanced Legal Writing Through Collaboration (with Elizabeth Shaver and Richard Strong), Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing (2013)
Legal education is at a crossroads. Practitioners, academics, and students agree that more experiential learning...
The Endangered Species Act: A New Avenue for Climate Change Litigation?, Public Land and Resources Law Review (2008)
Unpublished Papers
Judicial Campaign Financing: An Ever Present Threat to Judicial Independence, ExpressO (2009)
The different processes by which state judges are selected is an increasingly popular topic for...