# Tyson-Lord Gray 0 tlg8 [Adjunct](/taxonomy/term/4801) Adjunct Assistant Professor 2020 [ Personal Website ](https://tysonlordgray.com/) ![Tyson-Lord Gray profile photo](/sites/default/files/styles/480w_x_543h/public/media/tlg8.jpg?h=5ab61906&itok=_TyXuNQL) Kaufman Management Center 44 West Fourth Street, 7-194 New York, NY 10012 7-194 0 - J.D., Environmental Law, 2017 Pace Law School - Ph.D., Environmental Ethics, 2014 Vanderbilt University - S.T.M., Philosophical Ethics, 2008 Boston University - M.Div., Systematic Theology, 2007 Morehouse School of Religion - B.A., Religion, 2002 Trinity International University - The Emerging Cannabis Industry - Animals and Public Policy - Environmental Activism: From the Local to the Global - History of American Environmental Policy - Professional Responsibility & Leadership - Professional Responsibility Tyson-Lord Gray is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Business & Society Program at New York University's Stern School of Business, where he teaches Professional Responsibility & Leadership. He holds a concurrent appointment as the Harold A. Stevens Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, where he teaches Administrative Law and The Law and Policy of Sustainable Business. Professor Gray's scholarship sits at the intersection of administrative law, food law and policy, environmental law, and corporate responsibility. His research examines the administrative and statutory limits of environmental policies, corporate food waste jurisprudence, and the role of ethics in legal analysis of corporate decision-making. His work has been published in the SMU Law Review and featured in Law360 and The Hill. Professor Gray's broader scholarly work integrates virtue ethics and normative theory into legal analysis of environmental and food systems. He is an inductee of the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Scholars (2025) and serves on the Board of Directors for Green the Church. Before joining the Stern faculty, he was a Faculty Fellow in the Environmental Studies Department at NYU College of Arts and Sciences. Professor Gray earned his B.A. from Trinity International University, an M.Div. from Morehouse School of Religion, an S.T.M. from Boston University, a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University, and a J.D. with an Advanced Certificate in Environmental Law from Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. He is admitted to the New York State Bar and the District of Columbia Bar. - Business and the Environment - Sustainable Business Law - ESG Compliance - Environmental Law - Food Law & Policy - Tyson-Lord Gray (2026) ["The New SNAP Food Restrictions Aren't Just Confusing — They're Illegal," The Hill](https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5765109-snap-restrictions-lack-authority/) Op-Eds & Commentary - Tyson-Lord Gray (2026) ["SNAP Rule Confusion Risks a Compliance Crisis," Law360 ](https://www.law360.com/articles/2442747/snap-rule-confusion-risks-a-compliance-crisis) Op-Eds & Commentary - Tyson-Lord Gray (2026) From Incentives to Outcomes: A Jurisprudential Analysis of Federal Corporate Food Donation Policy, 79 SMU L. Rev. Law Review Article - Tyson-Lord Gray (2024) "African American Religious Naturalism in the Novel Sula by Toni Morrison," in Religion and Nature in North America (Laurel D. Kearns & Whitney A. Bauman eds., Bloomsbury Academic) Book Chapter - Tyson-Lord Gray (2021) ["African American Religious Naturalism in the Novel Sula by Toni Morrison," Bloomsbury Religion in North America](http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350970694.0004) Academic Article - Tyson-Lord Gray (2020) ["Staring at the Sun: Tragedy, Trauma, and Ecological Harmony," Dialog: A Journal of Theology](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dial.12622) Academic Article - Tyson-Lord Gray (2014) "Beauty or Bane: Advancing an Aesthetic Appreciation of Wind Turbine Farms," in Environmental Aesthetics (Martin Drenthen & Jozef Keulartz eds., Fordham Press) Book Chapter - Tyson-Lord Gray (2013) "Eco-Protest Music and the U.S. Environmental Movement," in Sounds of Resistance: The Role of Music in Multicultural Activism (Eunice Rojas & Lindsay Michie Eades eds., Praeger Publishers Book Chapter - Tyson-Lord Gray (2012) ["Beauty or Bane: Advancing an Aesthetic Appreciation of Wind Turbine Farms," 10 Contemporary Aesthetics art. 11](https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/liberalarts_contempaesthetics/vol10/iss1/11) Academic Article - Tyson-Lord Gray (2008) "Consider This," in Holy Ground: A Gathering of Voices on Caring for Creation (Lyndsay Moseley ed., Sierra Club Books) Book Chapter