Carmen G. Gonzalez & Rebecca Bratspies on Teaching Environmental Law in Context

Authors

• Jonathan Feingold, Boston University School of LawFollow
• Carmen G. Gonzalez, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
• Rebecca Bratspies, Tulane University Law School

Program

#RaceClass

Episode

67

Episode Length

1:00:30

Media Type

Podcast

Release Date

8-14-2026

Language

en-US

Abstract

Environmental law scholars Carmen G. Gonzalez and Rebecca Bratspies join the #RaceClass Podcast to discuss their new teaching guide: Teaching Environmental Law in Context. Their guide offers a corrective to the traditional environmental law course that disconnects students from the power dynamics, structural racism and local politics that animate today's most pressing environmental fights. We also discuss what it means to teach about environmental racism in a moment of escalating rightwing repression and climate emergencies.

Related Resources

Rebecca M. Bratspies & Carmen G. Gonzalez, Teaching Environmental Law in Context (2026), available at https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035333905. BU authenticated full-text access available at https://www-elgaronline-com.ezproxy.bu.edu/monobook/book/9781035333905/9781035333905.xml.

Carmen Gonzalez and Rebecca Bratspies, The Unbearable Whiteness of Environmental Law, Center for Progressive Reform Symposium on Environmental Justice as Environmental Human Rights, Nov. 2023, available at https://lawscholars.luc.edu/en/publications/the-unbearable-whiteness-of-environmental-lawpdf/ .

Recommended Citation

Jonathan Feingold, Carmen G. Gonzalez & Rebecca Bratspies, Carmen G. Gonzalez & Rebecca Bratspies on Teaching Environmental Law in Context (2026).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/raceclass/22