Caroline Cox joined BC Law as an Assistant Professor of Law in 2025. She studies the roles that state and local governments play in environmental governance and environmental federalism in the climate change era.
Cox received her J.D. from Harvard Law School. Cox was previously the program director for the Energy, Environment and Land Use Program and an adjunct faculty member at Vanderbilt Law School. Before joining Vanderbilt, she served as a law clerk to Judge Branstetter Stranch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and to Judge Lee H. Rosenthal of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Cox previously worked as an associate attorney at the Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest, where she worked on matters before the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, promoting the clean energy transition in Ohio, and assisting with environmental litigation and state and federal courts.
