Aletta Brady, J.D.

(Postdoctoral Scholar)

Aletta Brady is a law clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and a Principal Counselor at the Yale Center for Environmental Justice. Previously, Aletta has served as 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 and Spring 2025. 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.