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Professor Michael Hamersky is the Executive Director of the and an Adjunct Professor at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at ����vlog����Ƶ. Over nearly four decades, the Pace Energy and Climate Center has established itself as a national leader working at the intersection of energy and the environment. At the Center, Professor Hamersky focuses on policy solutions related to climate change mitigation, clean energy deployment, sustainable development, and renewable energy incentive structures. Importantly, Professor Hamersky prioritizes the Center����vlog����Ƶ�s work on the impact that the clean energy transition will have on vulnerable communities.

Prior to this role, Professor Hamersky served as the Climate Change and Land Use Policy Fellow at Pace Haub Law where he focused on the clean energy transition and the various barriers to, and incentives for, renewable energy deployment. Specifically, Professor Hamersky has advised the United States Department of Energy, as well as end-users and municipalities, on how to best implement on-site distributed energy resources in the New York/New Jersey region considering the economics in light of regional energy markets. He has also developed recommendations to the New York State Research and Development Authority (����vlog����Ƶ�NYSERDA����vlog����Ƶ�) to update New York����vlog����Ƶ�s battery storage, and wind energy, systems model laws and has prepared resources related to large renewable energy project siting and permitting process, which is used by NYSERDA to educate municipalities throughout the state.

Professor Hamersky has a passion for defending the ocean and has produced significant scholarship related to protecting ocean ecosystems from the environmental harms related to deep seabed mining. In furtherance of that passion, Professor Hamersky served as an adviser to the Alliance of Small Island States during its negotiations related to the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction.

Professor Hamersky is actively working with Native American tribes to ensure that tribal communities have access to reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy. As the result of his work with tribal NGOs, he was invited to speak on proposed revisions to laws and federal regulations towards a more sustainable energy future free of fossil fuels by the Navajo Nation Department of Fish and Wildlife in August 2024. Professor Hamersky will be presenting on threats to Indigenous conservation efforts in Belem, Brazil at COP30.

Previously, Professor Hamersky was a corporate restructuring litigator for over fifteen years in New York City and an Adjunct Professor of trial advocacy at the Fordham University School of Law.

• BA, Boston University
• JD, Fordham University School of Law
• LLM, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at ����vlog����Ƶ

• Natural Resources Law

• Climate Change and Land Use Policy Fellow

• Multinational Asset Management Firms & ESG Disclosure Management, 20 N.Y.U. J. L. & Bus. 577 (2024) (co-author with Jason Czarnezki and Maggie Pahl)
• Here Comes the Sun: How the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 Helps the Solar Industry Emerge from a Decade of Bankruptcy Darkness, Texas Environmental Law Journal, Issue 53-2
• Extracting Environmental Harm from Deep Seabed Mining, The Environmental Law Reporter, Vol. 53, No. 10
• Broken Promises and Unfulfilled Obligations: Arizona v. Navajo Nation, A.B.A. NR&E (Winter 2024)
• Live, Work, Govern Using Diné Fundamental Law, A.B.A. The Urban Lawyer, Vol. 53, No. 1.
• Indigenous Practices Can Save the Planet, The Environmental Forum (May/June 2025)