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Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Camila Bustos was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Human Rights at Trinity College and a Clinical Supervisor in human rights practice at the University Network for Human Rights. She also served as a term law clerk to Justice Steven D. Ecker of the Connecticut Supreme Court and as a consultant with the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP).

Professor Bustos is a graduate from Yale Law School, where she received the Francis Wayland Prize and was a Switzer Foundation Fellow and a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. During law school, she worked at the Center for Climate Integrity, the Climate Litigation Network, and EarthRights International. Professor Bustos also co-founded Law Students for Climate Accountability, a national law student-led movement pushing the legal industry to phase out fossil fuel representation and support a just, livable future. Prior to law school, she worked as a human rights researcher at the Center for the Study of Law, Justice, and Society (Dejusticia) in Colombia.

Professor Bustos’ writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the Vanderbilt Law Review, Harvard Environmental Law Review, N.Y.U. Environmental Law Journal, the Connecticut Law Review, and the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, among others. Her research and scholarship focuses on human rights and environmental law. She is a frequent presenter on climate displacement, climate law, and environmental justice, and has provided expert testimony before the Canadian Senate and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. She serves as a board member of Law Students for Climate Accountability and Save the Sound.

Read the Faculty Focus featuring Professor Bustos

• BA, Brown University
• JD, Yale Law School

• International Human Rights Seminar LAW 669
• Environmental Law Survey LAW 856
• Environmental Law Seminar: Climate Migration LAW 797X
• Torts LAW 631

View all of Professor Bustos's publications on or download her CV (PDF).

• Implementing Climate Remedies, Vanderbilt L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026).
• Rethinking Nature's Rights, Harvard Environmental Law Review (forthcoming 2026).
• Climate Justice and the Right to Stay in Puerto Rico, William & Mary Environmental Law & Policy Review (forthcoming 2026) (with Mercè Marti Exposito).
• , 33 N.Y.U. Env’t. L. J. 157 (2025).
• , 87 Albany L. Rev. 799 (2025) (with Julia Neusner).
• “The Role of Private Law Firms,” in The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Private Law (Doug Kysar and Ernest Lim, eds.) (2025).
• “Teaching Legal Ethics and the Climate Emergency,” in Educating lawyers for climate and environmental justice: theory and practice (Richard Grimes, Stephen Levett & Rebecca Samaras, eds.) (2025).
• , 56 Case Western Reserve J. of Int’l L. 360 (2024).
• , 55 Conn. L. Rev. 781 (2023) (with Bruni Pizarro & Tabitha Sookdeo).
• , 31 Mich. St. Int’l L. Rev. 403 (2023) (with Juliana Vélez-Echeverri).
• , 54 Rev. Der. Del Estado 227 (2022) (with Whitney Richardson).
• , 39 17�Թ��� Env’t. L. Rev. 1 (2022).
• 32 Yale J. of L. & Feminism 73 (2020).

• Hudson Valley Hispanic Bar Association “Trail Blazer” Award
• Francis Wayland Prize (Yale Law)
• Switzer Fellow
• Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow

Climate litigation, corporate accountability, climate migration, climate displacement, climate ethics