Dr. Gerald Torres

Biography

Gerald Torres is the Dolores Huerta Wilma Mankiller Professor of Environmental Justice at Yale School of the Environment and the Yale Law School. A past president of the Association of American Law Schools, he has taught at Stanford and Harvard Law Schools. Torres served as counsel to the Attorney General on environmental matters and Indian affairs at the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as on the Board of the Environmental Law Institute and the EPA’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council. His groundbreaking work focuses on agricultural law and policy, particularly on environmental regulation related to food and fiber production, and he has written extensively in the area of water resource management. His current research includes the legal position of tribes within the context of environmental policy and social movements' role in legal change. He is also actively involved in the American Law Institute's Restatement project and is writing a book on social movements and law making, bridging various disciplines to explore significant interactions between environmental justice and race.

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