Climate Justice and Environmental Justice
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- About the Professor
Gerald Torres is a Professor of Environmental Justice at the Yale School of the Environment and a Professor at the Yale Law School. He is former President of the Association of American Law Schools and has taught at Stanford Law School and at Harvard Law School, where he served as the Oneida Nation Visiting Professor of Law. Professor Torres served as Counsel to the Attorney General on environmental matters and Indian affairs at the U.S. Department of Justice. Professor Torres has served on the board of the Environmental Law Institute, the EPA's National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, and the National Petroleum Council. He is board chair of EarthDay.org and founding Chairman of the Advancement Project, a leading Civil Rights advocacy organization. He is a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Professor Torres is on the Advisory Council of The Connecticut Sea Grant. He has served as a consultant to the United Nations on environmental matters and is a life member of the American Law Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations.
READING & VIDEO
The global debate surrounding reparations for slavery has reignited in the last ten years. Many advocates, influenced by concepts like reconciliatory justice, have argued that reparations should be...
Who Owns the Sky, Peter Barnes
BOOK
This book is about your inheritance, my inheritance and our children’s inheritance. The inheritance I’m talking about is much larger, and at the same time, less obvious. It’s our inheritance of gifts we don’t normally think we own. Things like air, water and forests. These gifts are very valuable, perhaps even priceless. They’re valuable for basic biological reasons—we can’t live without them—and they’re also valuable in an economic sense…
90-MINUTE LECTURE & CONVERSATION
Professor Alison Richard
Monday, November 7
4 PM ET
Presented by,
Robert Klee ’04 J.D., ’05 Ph.D.
