Environmental Justice: Agency and Environmental Joy with Gerald Torres
December 6 @ 11:30 am – 12:45 pm EST
Friday, December 6, 2024, 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM ET // 8:30 – 9:45 AM PT
Gerald Torres (Professor of Environmental Justice at the Yale School of the Environment) is the former Association of American Law Schools President and has taught at Stanford and Harvard Law Schools. Professor Torres served as Counsel to the Attorney General on environmental matters and Indian affairs at the U.S. Department of Justice. Professor Torres served on the Board of the Environmental Law Institute and the EPA’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council and was the founding chairman of the Advancement Project. He is board chair of Earth Day and a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He was a consultant to the United Nations on environmental matters. Torres is a life member of the American Law Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Torres has done groundbreaking work in agricultural law and policy, especially on the environmental regulation of food and fiber production. He has written in the area of water resource management. While continuing to focus on the role of social movements in producing durable legal change, he is finishing a book on environmental justice. An internationally known scholar of Indian law, Torres has recently focused on cooperative resource management and the changing legal landscape within American colonies.
This Antioch Works for Democracy webinar is in partnership with and celebration of 50 years of Environmental Studies at Antioch University, as part of its Fall 2024 Environmental Justice and Democracy Colloquium Series.
