Gregg Macey
Director
Center for Land, Environment and Natural Resources
UC Irvine School of Law
Gregg Macey is the Director of the Center for Land, Environment and Natural Resources at UC Irvine School of Law. While at UC Irvine, he developed research programs on (1) Land Use Planning and Climate Action, (2) Ecology and Climate Policy, (3) Environmental Data and Community Science, (4) Pesticide Reform and Farmworker Health, (5) Goods Movement and Just Transition, (6) Transportation and Infrastructure Equity, and (7) State and Federal Civil Rights Enforcement. He serves as P.I. or Co-P.I. on initiatives such as Integrated and Equitable Climate Action, Wildland-Urban Interface Climate Action Network, Community Environmental Research Accelerator, Climate Change and Toxicity, Air Quality and Goods Movement, Transportation and Emissions Reduction Planning, Data to Improve Community Conditions, and others. His articles appear in a number of journals, including Environmental Science and Technology, Georgetown Law Journal, Environmental Health, Utah Law Review, Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell Law Review, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nexus, and Environmental Management, among others. He published book chapters in Risk Analysis of Natural Hazards and Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States. He co-edited a volume on the future of environmental remediation, Reclaiming the Land: Rethinking Superfund Institutions, Methods, and Practices, with Jon Cannon. He has taught at Brooklyn Law School (where he received tenure), Boston University, MIT, Fordham Law School, and the University of Virginia. Prior to academia, he was an Intellectual Property Associate with the law firm Kirkland & Ellis; a Senior Associate with E2 Inc., an environmental consulting firm; a Senior Associate with the Consensus Building Institute (CBI), a land use mediation firm; and a land use and environmental planning consultant. Professor Macey has a J.D. from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in urban planning from MIT.