Faculty
Professor Eileen Gauna
Professor of Law
B.U.S. 1976, J.D. 1985; The University of New Mexico
Member of the New Mexico Bar
Professor Gauna teaches courses in environmental law, environmental justice, administrative law, energy and property. She began her legal career in 1985. After a judicial clerkship with Justice Mary C. Walters of the New Mexico Supreme Court, she worked with Poole, Tinnin and Martin, a law firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico, specializing in commercial transactions. Professor Gauna entered academia in 1991, when she accepted a faculty appointment at Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, California, and was subsequently appointed to the UNM law faculty.
Professor Gauna has written about and worked extensively on environmental justice matters, and has co-authored a widely used casebook in the area. She is a member of the EPA's National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC), the Environmental Justice Committee of the American Bar Association's Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section, and a member of the Environmental Justice Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section on Environment, Energy and Resources. She is also a member scholar at the Center for Progressive Regulation.
Professor Gauna was recently a consultant to the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) in connection with its environmental justice initiative and co-authored two reports to the Secretary of NMED. She is also a former member of the California Governor's Office of Planning, Research and Development Environmental Justice Working Group. Professor Gauna is also the past chair of the Environmental Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools. In 1998, Professor Gauna was appointed to an EPA federal advisory committee that examined the applicability of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to environmental permitting.
Professor Gauna has worked closely with other agencies, educational institutions, environmental justice organizations and networks in the southwestern United States, and is now working with a coalition of environmental groups working on environmental justice initiatives in New Mexico.
Contact Information
Ph.: 505-277-7776
Fax: 505-277-0068
Office: 1115
Email: gauna@law.unm.edu
