Joshua Macey
Professor of Law
Yale Law School
Joshua Macey is a professor of law at Yale Law School and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
His research and teaching focus on bankruptcy, environmental law, energy law, and financial regulation. His recent work examines the fragility of the electric grid and policies to improve grid reliability while accelerating the transition to new energy sources. He is a co-author of the casebook “Energy, Economics, and the Environment.”
Before joining Yale, Macey served as an assistant professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School and as a visiting assistant professor of law at Cornell Law School. Earlier in his career, he clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and worked at Morgan Stanley.
Macey received the American Bankruptcy Institute’s 40 Under 40 Emerging Leaders in Insolvency Practice recognition and won the Morrison Prize for the most impactful sustainability-related legal academic paper in North America in three consecutive years.
He earned a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, a master’s in political theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a bachelor’s from Yale College.
