Please join us for a conversation over lunch with Gerald Torres, Professor of Environment and Law and Faculty Director of the Yale Center for Environmental Justice, about his ongoing research, recent developments in the field of environmental justice, and the work of the Yale Center for Environmental Justice.
Gerald Torres is a Professor of Environmental Justice at the Yale School of the Environment and a Professor at Yale Law School. Professor Torres served as Counsel to the Attorney General on environmental matters and Indian affairs at the U.S. Department of Justice. He has done groundbreaking work in agricultural law and policy, especially on the environmental regulation of food and fiber production, and is finishing a book on environmental justice. An internationally known scholar of Indian law, Torres has recently focused on cooperative resource management between tribes, the states, and the federal government, and the changing legal landscape within American colonies.