#EnvironmentalRacismIsKillingUs: Teaching About Environmental Racism in Clinical Legal Education

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Session Type: Lightning Sessions

Session Capacity: N/A

Location: N/A

Room: Yosemite B

Floor: Ballroom Level

Discrimination in the context of environmental harm disproportionately affects indigenous, traditional, local, minority, and other vulnerable communities with poor environmental quality and conditions, lack of information regarding the potential or actual dangers that they face, lack of access to health care to address environmental harms to health, lack of participatory rights in decision-making processes, and overall inequality in comparison to the rest of the population.
In order to prevent and mitigate the effects of discrimination in relation to the environment, States must consider historical, systemic, or persistent patterns of discriminatory treatment against persons or communities. During this panel discussion, Professors Allison Korn, Katherine Garvey, and Sarah Dávila-Ruhaak will discuss environmental racism from different perspectives and areas of clinical work. Specifically, they will discuss how environmental racism disproportionally affects poor communities of color, or ethnic or linguistic minority communities. They will discuss how clinical projects can be approached from an environmental racism justice perspective in the areas of the right to food, community economic development, and human rights.