Professor Gregg Macey Article Included in Land Use and Environmental Law Review

An article by Professor Gregg Macey, “Boundary Work in Environmental Law,” was recently selected for reprint in the annual Land Use and Environmental Law Review.

Macey’s article is the first in a series to consider knowledge production in the wake of the unconventional energy boom in the United States. The second in the series, “The Incomplete Ecology of Hydraulic Fracturing Research,” is under revision for publication in the Arizona State Law Journal. Macey will continue his work on the series next year as a Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

The article, which was originally published in the Houston Law Review, was selected through two rounds of peer review to be included in a compendium that includes five notable environmental law articles that were published in the previous year. The journal is co-edited by Professors J.B. Ruhl of Vanderbilt University Law School and David Callies of the University of Hawaii School of Law, along with a group of environmental and land use law faculty from across the country.

“The escalation of shale gas and other sources of energy production, which was aided by horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and other technological triumphs, took many scholars by surprise,” said Macey. "It is important to probe the scientific literatures that emerged in the wake of unconventional energy for lessons learned, including research questions that were asked and ignored as well as how we construct acceptable risk, environmental impact, and precaution. These articles aim to join and shape such a conversation."

Macey’s research interests include environmental regulation, organization theory, and natural and man-made disasters. His articles have appeared in Environmental Health, Georgetown Law Journal, Utah Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Environmental Management, and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, among others. Macey has also published book chapters in Risk Analysis of Natural Hazards (2016) and Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States (forthcoming). His co-edited volume on the future of the Superfund program, Reclaiming the Land (with Jon Cannon), was published by Springer. Macey is affiliated with the Center for Health, Science & Public Policy.

Prior to Brooklyn Law School, Macey was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Fordham Law School. He was an associate with the law firm Kirkland & Ellis, a senior associate with E2 Inc., an environmental consulting firm based in Charlottesville, VA, and a senior associate with the Consensus Building Institute (CBI), a mediation firm based in Cambridge, MA. He holds a Ph.D. in urban planning, and was Editor-in-Chief of the MIT Journal of Planning and the Virginia Environmental Law Journal.