WINTER LECTURE

In Winter term 2022, the Environmental Studies program hosted a talk by guest speaker Gerald Torres. Torres is a professor of Environmental Justice at the Yale School of the Environment and professor at the Yale Law School. He is former president of the Association of American Law Schools and has previously taught at Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School, where he served as the Oneida Nation Visiting Professor of Law. Torres served as Counsel to the Attorney General on environmental matters and Indian affairs at the U.S. Department of Justice.

He has also served on the boards of the Environmental Law Institute, the EPA’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council and the National Petroleum Council. While originally planned to be a campus visit, his talk — titled “Tribal Sovereignty and Resource Management: The Complexities of Past and Future” — switched to a Zoom webinar due to COVID-19. The event was enjoyed by a large audience, including Environmental Studies students and faculty, students and faculty from a variety of other departments in the College, and members of the Lexington community. 