James Anaya is Regents and James J. Lenoir Professor of Human Rights Law and Policy, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona. An expert in international human rights and indigenous peoples law, he currently serves as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

This is the annual Odum Environmental Ethics Lecture, co-sponsored by the EECP and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.