Joshua C. Macey

Josh Macey left the University of Chicago in summer 2024 and is now at Yale.

Josh Macey teaches and writes about bankruptcy, environmental law, energy law, and the regulation of financial institutions. He is the three-time winner of the Morrison Prize for most influential environmental law article of the previous year. In 2023, the American Bankruptcy Institute named him to its list of 40 Under 40 Emerging Leaders in Insolvency Practice. He is also co-author of the 6th edition of the leading energy law casebook, Energy, Economics, and the Environment.

Professor Macey graduated from Yale College, the London School of Economics, and Yale Law School. He has worked at Morgan Stanley and clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III on the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.