Carlos Scott López (Lopez-Gelormino; April 11, 1970) is an American-born clinical psychologist, human rights attorney, and public health advocate who has focused his career on studying, addressing, and treating trauma among vulnerable and marginalized groups - and specifically LGBTQ+ and Latino individuals.

[1] López received an AB with honors from Harvard University; a JD from Yale Law School[2] with foci in public health and international human rights; and an MPsych and PhD from the University of New South Wales in clinical psychology with a focus in psychotraumatology and neurospsychology.

[citation needed] López's focus on the cross-cultural dimensions of trauma and PTSD, public health/epidemiology, immigration, and alternative dispute resolution (particularly mediation and arbitration) emerged in the early 1990s after teaching negotiation techniques at Harvard Law School with the late Prof. Roger Fisher, and assisting repatriated refugees as an officer with the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC).

[10] Given López's critical and comparatively progressive stance towards public health rights, the fluidity of cross-cultural therapeutic psychological techniques, and complex dimensions of assessing stigma – particularly vis-à-vis psychedelic / entheogenic medicines and HIV-AIDS[8] – he has been viewed as overly idealistic.

His ideas about decriminalized plant-based medicines, future political organizations, consultative community-based law reform, and the natural transformation of nation-states into a global, unified federation of libertarian municipalities have also been considered somewhat naive.