2022 Inaugural Graciela Olivárez Latinas in the Legal Academy ("GO LILA") Workshop
Carmen G. Gonzalez
Carmen G. Gonzalez is the Morris I. Leibman Professor of Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Her research focuses on international environmental law, environmental justice, human rights and the environment, and the global food system. Her publications include International Environmental Law and the Global South (Cambridge University Press, 2015); Energy Justice: US and International Perspectives (Edward Elgar 2018); and The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development (Cambridge University Press, 2021). She also co-edited Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia (Utah State University Press, 2012) and Presumed Incompetent II: Race, Class, Power, and Resistance of Women in Academia (Utah State University Press, 2020). Professor Gonzalez has held numerous prestigious academic appointments. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina, a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, a Visiting Professor at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in China, and a U.S. Supreme Court Fellow. She later served as the George Soros Visiting Chair at the Central European University School of Public Policy in Budapest, Hungary, and as the Norton Rose Fulbright Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Houston Law Center. In 2019, Vermont Law School selected her as its Distinguished International Environmental Law Scholar. Professor Gonzalez has worked on environmental law capacity-building projects in Latin America, Asia, and the former Soviet Union, and has represented non-governmental organizations in multilateral environmental treaty negotiations. She served as chair of the Environmental Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools; member and vice-chair of the Governing Board of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law; and member of the Board of Trustees of Earthjustice, the largest public interest environmental law firm in the United States. She also served on the International Subcommittee of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC), an advisory body to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on environmental justice issues. Professor Gonzalez holds a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Prior to becoming a law professor, she clerked for Judge Thelton E. Henderson of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, practiced law at Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, and served as assistant regional counsel at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in San Francisco, California.
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