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ClimateVoices · Episode 82 · 10-15-25
An interview with Camila Bustos, an Assistant Professor of Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. Prior to this role, Professor Bustos was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Human Rights at Trinity College-Hartford and a Clinical Supervisor in human rights practice at the University Network for Human Rights. Professor Bustos is a graduate from Yale Law School, where she received the Francis Wayland Prize and was a Switzer Foundation Fellow and a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. During law school, she worked at The Center for Climate Integrity, the Climate Litigation Network, and EarthRights International. Professor Bustos also co-founded Law Students for Climate Accountability, a national law student-led movement pushing the legal industry to phase out fossil fuel representation and support a just, livable future.
Professor Bustos’ writing has appeared in the N.Y.U. Environmental Law Journal, the Connecticut Law Review, the Albany Law Review, and the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, among others. Her research and scholarship focuses on human rights and environmental law. She is a frequent presenter on climate displacement, climate law, and environmental justice, and has provided expert testimony before the Canadian Senate and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. She serves as a board member of Law Students for Climate Accountability and Save the Sound.
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Camila Bustos
Assistant Professor of Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University and Co-founder of Law Students for Climate Accountability
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