Alexia Brunet Marks
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Professor of Law
401 UCB
2450 Kittredge Loop Drive
Wolf Law Building
Boulder, CO 80309
Office: 433
Phone: (303) 492-6065
E-mail: alexia.brunet@colorado.edu
Curriculum Vitae: View (PDF format)
Personal Link:| Educational Background: | |||
| Ph.D. | Purdue University | 2005 | |
| J.D. | Northwestern University | 2005 | |
| M.S. | Purdue University | 1999 | |
| B.A. | Colgate University | 1991 | |
Alexia Brunet Marks is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. Professor Brunet Marks' received her Ph.D. from Purdue University (Applied Economics), and J.D. from Northwestern University Law School. Her research interests include food systems law and international economic law with an approach that is both transnational and multidisciplinary. Professor Brunet Marks teaches International Business Transactions, International Trade Law, Food Law and Policy, and Torts.
Professor Brunet Marks' research has been published in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, the North Carolina Law Review, the Arizona Law Review, the Harvard Journal on Regulation, and other leading journals. Distinguished research awards include Colorado Law's Gamm justice Award for her 2022 pandemic article, Essential But Ignored: COVID-19 Litigation and the Meatpacking Industry, and Colorado Law's Consumer Rights award for her 2019 climate related article, Feeding the Eco-Consumer. At the University level, she received the Provost's Faculty Achievement Award in for her 2017 article, A New Governance Recipe for Food Safety Regulation. Her empirical project, What Predicts Law Student Success, was featured in the Wall Street Journal.
Before joining Colorado Law, Professor Brunet Marks was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern Law School. Prior to that, she worked at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Argonne National Laboratory, focusing on risk analysis and modeling. She began her career as a founding partner in an international trade venture and worked in Japan, Guinea and Poland.
Professor Brunet Marks graduated from Northwestern Law School (cum laude), where she received the Ralph Berger Award for her research on compensatory damages and was an ABF Fellow. She also holds a BA from Colgate University (International Relations) and a Ph.D. and M.S. from Purdue University (Agricultural Economics), and received competitive doctoral fellowships from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Science Foundation. Professor Brunet Marks was a Visiting Professor at the University of Copenhagen (2018) and is active in both the European and American Societies of International Law. She is also a founding member of the Academy of Food Law and Policy.
Articles
| Transitioning to Regenerative Agriculture One French Fry at a Time, NEVADA LAW JOURNAL (Forthcoming, 2024). |
| Sugar labeling: Challenges and Approaches, in RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON INTERNATIONAL FOOD LAW, Edward Elgar Press (Michael Roberts ed.) (2023). |
| Essential But Ignored: COVID-19 Litigation and the Meatpacking Industry, 14 Northeastern Law Review 1, 47-112 (2022). |
| Taming America's Sugar Rush: A "Traffic Light" Label Approach, Arizona Law Review, Vol. 62, No. 683 (2020). |
| (Carbon) Farming our Way out of Climate Change, 97 Denver Law Review 3, 497-556 (2020). |
| Brunet Marks et al, Colorado Essential Food System Worker Policy Response Agenda, U. Colo. L. Rev. Forum (Aug. 20, 2020). |
| Feeding the Eco-Consumer, 42 VERMONT LAW REVIEW 3, 567-603 (2018). |
| The Right To Regulate (Cooperatively), University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, Vol. 38, No. 1 (2016). |
| A New Governance Recipe for Food Safety Regulation, 47 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO LAW JOURNAL 3 (2016). Reprinted in, Gostin, Lawrence O., ed. PUBLIC HEALTH LAW & ETHICS: A READER, 3d ed. Berkeley: University of California Press (2016). |
| Brunet Marks (with Scott Moss), What predicts Law Student Success? A Longitudinal Study Correlating Law Student Applicant Data and Law School Outcomes, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 2 (June 2016). |
| The Risks We Are Willing To Eat: Food Imports and Safety, 52 HARVARD JOURNAL ON LEGISLATION 1, 125-172 (2015). |
| Check Please: How Legal Liability Informs Food Safety Regulation, 50 Houston Law Review 3 (2013). |
| Brunet Marks (with R.J.Allen), To Tow or Not to Tow: The Deterrence Effect of a Municipal Ordinance, 47 Criminal Law Bulletin 410 (2011). |
| Under Attack: Terrorism Risk Insurance Regulation, 89 North Carolina Law Review 387 (2011). |
| Brunet Marks (with R.J. Allen), The Judicial Treatment of Non-Economic Compensatory Damages in the Nineteenth Century, 4 Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 365 (2007). |
| Brunet Marks (with J.A. Lentini), Arbitration of International Oil, Gas, and Energy Disputes in Latin America, 27 Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business 591 (2007). |
| Brunet Marks (with M.Shafe), Beyond Enron: Regulation in Energy Derivatives Trading, 27 Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business 665 (2007). |
| Brunet Marks (with R.J.Allen & S.S.Roth), An External Perspective on the Nature of Noneconomic Compensatory Damages and Their Regulation, 56 DePaul Law Review 1249 (2007). |
| Brunet Marks (with K.T. Mcnamara & L.Deboer), Community Choice Between Volunteer And Professional Fire Departments, 30 Nonprofit And Voluntary Sector Quarterly 1 (2001). |
Other Publications
| An End to Terrorism Risk Insurance Regulation?, George Mason Law School, Center for Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security, Critical Infrastructure Report, November 2011. |
Presentations and Speeches
| The Roles and Rights of Essential Food System Workers During COVID-19, Colorado Law Talk, University of Colorado Law School (scheduled August 25, 2020). |
| COVID Economic Disruption- The Global Supply Chain, Guest Lecture, University of Arkansas Law School, LLM Program in Agricultural and Food Law, Online Course: Food, Law, and COVID-19 (scheduled, Oct. 30, 2020). |
Courses:
| Spring 2025 | Seminar: Food Law and Policy | LAWS 8545-801 |
| Spring 2024 | Seminar: Food Law and Policy | LAWS 8545-801 |
| Fall 2023 | Torts | LAWS 5425-803 |
| Spring 2023 | Seminar: Food Law and Policy | LAWS 8545-801 |
| Fall 2022 | Torts | LAWS 5425-803 |
| Spring 2022 | Seminar: Food Law and Policy | LAWS 8545-801 |
| Fall 2021 | Torts | LAWS 5425-803 |
| Spring 2021 | International Trade Law | LAWS 6410-801 |
| Spring 2021 | Seminar: Food Law and Policy | LAWS 8545-801 |
| Fall 2020 | Torts | LAWS 5425-803 |
| Spring 2020 | International Business Transactions | LAWS 7611-801 |
| Spring 2020 | Seminar: Food Law and Policy | LAWS 8545-801 |
| Fall 2019 | Torts | LAWS 5425-803 |
| Spring 2019 | International Trade Law | LAWS 6410-801 |
| Spring 2019 | Seminar: Food Law and Policy | LAWS 8545-801 |
| Spring 2018 | Food Law and Practice | LAWS 7520-801 |
| Spring 2018 | Food Law and Practice | LAWS 7520-902 |
| Spring 2018 | International Business Transactions | LAWS 7611-801 |
| Fall 2017 | Torts | LAWS 5425-801 |
| Spring 2017 | International Trade Law | LAWS 6410-001 |
| Spring 2017 | Seminar: Food Law and Policy | LAWS 8545-001 |
| Fall 2016 | Torts | LAWS 5425-801 |
| Spring 2016 | International Business Transactions | LAWS 7611-001 |
| Spring 2016 | Seminar: Food Law and Policy | LAWS 8545-001 |
| Fall 2015 | Torts | LAWS 5425-802 |
| Spring 2015 | International Trade Law | LAWS 6410-001 |
| Spring 2015 | Seminar: Food Law and Policy | LAWS 8545-001 |
| Fall 2014 | Torts | LAWS 5425-802 |
| Spring 2014 | International Business Transactions | LAWS 7611-001 |
| Spring 2014 | Seminar: Food Law and Policy | LAWS 8545-001 |
| Spring 2013 | International Business Transactions | LAWS 7611-001 |
| Spring 2013 | Seminar: Business Law Colloquium | LAWS 8101-001 |