Sarah Fowler

Lecturer in Law
Last Updated: September 6, 2024

Sarah Fowler is senior deputy general counsel at SAG-AFTRA, the union representing approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other media professionals. She is an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt Law School and a lecturer in law at USC Gould School of Law, where she teaches a course on the intersection of labor law and the entertainment industry.

Before joining SAG-AFTRA, Fowler was an entertainment litigator, handling right of publicity and privacy lawsuits, mostly on the talent side. She started her career as a general business litigator at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, representing clients in securities, antitrust, false claims act, copyright and contract dispute cases.