Alexia Brunet Marks

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.

Education

PhD, Purdue University
JD, Northwestern University
MS, Purdue University
BA, Colgate University

Areas of Specialty

Agricultural Law, Consumer Law, International Law, Torts, Food Law and Policy