Gabe Pacyniak

Gabe Pacyniak is an associate professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law. Gabe’s scholarship and policy work focuses on climate change and energy issues, with a focus on equity. He also is a co-supervisor of the School’s Natural Resources and Environmental Law (NREL) clinic, which provides law and policy representation to low-income and underserved communities on a broad range of NREL issues.  He also serves as a co-convenor of UNM’s Just Transition to Green Energy Grand Challenge initiative.

Gabe’s recent scholarship focuses on ensuring that energy is affordable to everyone in the clean energy transition and on identifying the legal mechanisms being used to address equity in climate change policies. He has published work in the Missouri Law Review, Harvard Law & Policy Review, and Ecology Law Quarterly, among other publications.

Prior to joining the UNM faculty in August 2017, Gabe managed the climate change mitigation program at the Georgetown Climate Center and co-taught a climate change law and policy practicum course as an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law. He currently serves on the Albuquerque Energy Board and has previously served on the New Mexico State Climate Change Task Force Technical Advisory Group and the Methane Advisory Panel.