Thomas O. McGarity

A former Articles Editor of the Texas Law Review, Professor McGarity is a leading scholar in the fields of both administrative law and environmental law. He also teaches torts. He has written seven influential books: Demolition Agenda (The New Press 2022); Pollution, Politics and Power (Harvard University Press 2018); Freedom to Harm (Yale University Press 2013); The Preemption War: When Federal Bureaucracies Trump Local Juries, (Yale University Press 2008), Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research, (Harvard University Press 2008) (co-author), Workers at Risk (Praeger, 1993) (co-author), The Law of Environmental Protection (West, 2nd ed., 1991) (co-author), and Reinventing Rationality: The Role of Regulatory Analysis in the Federal Bureaucracy (Cambridge, 1991). His recent articles include "Supplemental Environmental Projects in Complex Environmental Litigation, 98 Tex. L. Rev. 1405 (2020); "Deregulation Using Stealth 'Science' Strategies, 68 Duke L. J. 1719 (2019) (with Professor Wendy Wagner); and Deliberative Rulemaking: An Empirical Study of Participation in Three Agency Programs, 73 Ad. L. Rev. 609 (2021). He is a past president of the Center for Progressive Reform.