Carmen Gonzalez
Associate Professor of Law
Room 457, Seattle University School of Law
Phone: (206) 398-4067
E-mail: gonzalez@seattleu.edu
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Carmen Gonzalez | |
Teaches Administrative Law; Environmental Law; Hazardous Waste and Toxics Regulation; International Environmental Law; International Trade; Torts
B.A. magna cum laude Yale University 1985. J.D. cum laude Harvard Law School 1988. Clerk to Judge Thelton E. Henderson, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California.
After completing a federal judicial clerkship, Professor Gonzalez began her legal career in the San Francisco office of Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro, where she specialized in environmental litigation. She later served as an attorney at Pacific Gas and Electric Company, and as Assistant Regional Counsel in the San Francisco office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Her responsibilities at EPA included enforcement of U.S. hazardous waste laws and participation in joint activities between the United States and Mexico to address environmental problems along the U.S.-Mexican border. Professor Gonzalez has also taught and/or worked on environmental law projects in Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Ukraine, Moldova, and most recently China.
In 1998, Professor Gonzalez received a Fulbright Scholar award to teach international environmental law at the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2004-2005, she served as one of four U.S. Supreme Court Fellows selected by a panel of distinguished lawyers and judges appointed by the Chief Justice. Professor Gonzalez is a Life Member of Clare Hall (College for Advanced Study) at the University of Cambridge, and was a Visiting Scholar in Fall 2006 in the Faculties of Law and Land Economy and in the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge.
Professor Gonzalez is a member of the Executive Council of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section of Environmental Law. She is also a Member Scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform, a non-profit research and educational organization of university-affiliated academics that seeks to inform policy debates regarding environmental regulation. Professor Gonzalez has served as member and vice chair of the International Subcommittee of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC), an advisory body to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on environmental justice matters. She has also represented non-governmental organizations in multilateral environmental treaty negotiations.
Professor Gonzalez writes and lectures on international environmental justice issues and on the relationship among international environmental law, international trade law, and economic development. She joined the faculty in 1999.
During academic year 2008-2009, Prof. Gonzalez will be teaching at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in Nanjing China. The Hopkins-Nanjing Center is a joint academic venture between Johns Hopkins University and the University of Nanjing.