The Education of Judith Kimerling
An American Lawyer’s Epic Struggle to Stop Expanding Oil Operations Harming Indigenous Peoples in Ecuador’s Amazon
Judith Kimerling’s 1991 ‘Amazon Crude’ Exposed the Devastation of Oil Exploration in Ecuador. If Only She Could Make it Stop
After her start as a young lawyer working on the Love Canal case, Kimerling refused to take part in class-action litigation that consumed decades and victimized Ecuador’s Indigenous peoples. Now, her day in court has finally come on one group’s behalf.
By Katie Surma
![Judith Kimerling kneeling on pipelines above a drilling waste pit in the Ecuadorian Amazon in July 1990. Credit: Courtesy of Judith Kimerling](jpg/kimerling-pipeline-1990-900x600.jpg)