Emeritus Professor Eileen Gauna specializes in environmental justice scholarship and national environmental policy. She has taught environmental law, environmental justice, climate law, energy law, administrative law, and property law.
Gauna has worked closely with US agencies, educational institutions, non-profits and environmental justice organizations. She served on the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) for multiple tenures. As a Councilmember, she collaborated with stakeholders to produce reports and recommendations for the EPA Administrator. She completed her tenure by serving on an EPA federal advisory committee to examine the applicability of Title VI of Civil Rights Act to environmental permitting.
Gauna has also testified before Congress and was invited to speak at the White House Forum on environmental justice. She co-authored two reports on environmental justice for the Secretary of the New Mexico Environment Department.
Before being appointed to the faculty at Southwestern Law School, Gauna completed a judicial clerkship with New Mexico Supreme Court Justice Mary C. Walters and worked with the Poole law firm. She is a member of the American Law Institute, a member scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform and is the Dean Designate to the New Mexico Compilation Commission.
Environmental Justice: Law, Policy & Regulation 