AMBER POLK

Assistant Professor of Law

As a legal philosopher with a primary interest in our collective environmental crises, Polk’s research focuses on rights-based environmentalism as a legal, political, and moral movement. Polk was most recently an assistant professor of law at FIU College of Law and was the teaching fellow for the Environmental Law and Policy LLM program at Stanford Law School. She earned her PhD in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, her law degree from the University of Illinois College of Law, and her BS in mathematics and BA in philosophy and classics from the University of Pittsburgh. Upon graduation from law school, Polk clerked for Judge Robert W. Trumble in the Northern District of West Virginia and Judge Joseph R. Goodwin in the Southern District of West Virginia. She was also an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois College of Law in 2019.