Camila Bustos
Board Member
Camila (she/her/ella) is an incoming Assistant Professor at The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. Her scholarly interests include immigration, human rights, sovereignty, and climate change. Prior to law school, Camila worked at Colombian-based NGO Dejusticia, where she focused on climate change displacement, business and human rights, and constraints on civil society around the world. Camila was also a plaintiff and part of a team who won a groundbreaking lawsuit against the Colombian government for failing to meet its deforestation targets. During law school, she worked at the Center for Climate Integrity, the Climate Litigation Network, and EarthRights International. Camila 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. After law school, she served as a term law clerk to Justice Steven D. Ecker of the Connecticut Supreme Court. Camila also worked as a Clinical Supervisor in human rights practice at the University Network for Human Rights and as Visiting Assistant Professor of Human Rights at Trinity College.
Camila has worked as an independent consultant on climate displacement issues for the International Refugee Assistance Project and Hispanics in Philanthropy. She is a 2019 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow and a 2020 Switzer Fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, the ABA Human Rights Magazine, and the first legal casebook on Earth Law, among other publications. She currently serves on the board of Breach Collective. Camila holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies and International Relations from Brown University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.