Sheila Foster ’88 Named Fordham Law Vice Dean

Sheila Foster ’88 has been promoted to Vice Dean at Fordham University School of Law. The former Fordham Law associate dean for academic affairs is also the co-director of its Stein Center for Law and Ethics. Foster, who spent four years as a lecturer and academic support coordinator at Berkeley Law, has received two Ford Foundation grants for her work on environmental justice and urban development and has consulted with many community-based groups in New Jersey and New York on environmental racism. Among her most recent published work is “Integrative Lawyering: Navigating the Political Economy of Urban Development,” (California Law Review, 2007).