Aletta Brady

(Lecturer)

Aletta Brady is a Guest Instructor at the Yale School of the Environment and Yale Law School where they teach a course on environmental justice and climate justice law and policy. They are a Bernstein Fellow for Human Rights and a Climate Fellow for the International Refugee Assistance Project where they represent migrants seeking to move due to environmental factors. Aletta Brady has represented Indigenous tribes, asylum seekers, and cities and states seeking corporate accountability for climate catastrophe. Aletta has worked on cases with national impact including litigation around Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline that threatens the health of the Great Lakes. 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.