Faculty Director Gary Marchant will be giving a lecture on “Epigenetics & Environmental Justice: How Our Lived Environment Affects Our Future Health and the Health of Our Children” The lecture will take place on Friday, March 19, 2021 at 12PM CT.
Marchant’s lecture will be the sixth lecture in the year-long series “The Social Impacts of Environmental Injustice” produced by the Loyola University Chicago School of Law Environmental Law Society in cooperation with the Latino Law Students’ Association, Black Law Students’ Association, and Asian Pacific American Law Students’ Association.
Marchant will speak about the science of epigenetics and what it could mean for environmental justice, describing how local pollution can affect the health of those who live nearby through mutations in their genetic code as well as how that code can be inherited through reproduction.