Aletta Brady, J.D.

(Postdoctoral Scholar)

Aletta Brady was a Guest Instructor at the Yale School of the Environment and Yale Law School, where they taught a course on environmental justice and climate justice law and policy in Fall 2024. They are currently a Principal Counselor at the Yale Center for Environmental Justice, where they lecture on the relationship between human rights law and climate migration and the relationship between climate migration and the rise of eco-fascism. As a practitioner, Aletta has worked on climate and environmental justice litigation, including work towards an injunction of Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline that threatens the health of the Great Lakes and impinges on Indigenous sovereignty. As a researcher, Aletta is currently co-authoring a forthcoming Elgar-series book with Gerald Torres on environmental justice law. Mx. Brady's research interests include constitutional law in the Anthropocene, community-based lawyering, and the role of the military-industrial complex and corporations in exacerbating climate injustice.