Thomas O. McGarity
- William Powers, Jr. and Kim L. Heilbrun Chair in Tort Law
- Professor
Thomas McGarity '74 is a leading scholar in the fields of both administrative law and environmental law and also teaches torts at Texas Law. He has written seven influential books, including “Demolition Agenda,” published in 2022, and articles in several law journals. Additionally, Professor McGarity has held the position of president at the Center for Progressive Reform.
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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.
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year-1980
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Book Chapter
Judicial Review of Technological Standards Under the Clean Water Act
Thomas O. McGarity, Judicial Review of Technological Standards Under the Clean Water Act, in Water--1978 (Gary F. Bennett ed.; New York: American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1980) (with George Coggins).
year-1979
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Article
Substantive and Procedural Discretion in Administrative Resolution of Science Policy Questions: Regulating Carcinogens in EPA and OSHA
Thomas O. McGarity, Substantive and Procedural Discretion in Administrative Resolution of Science Policy Questions: Regulating Carcinogens in EPA and OSHA, 67 Georgia Law Review 729 (1979). -
Article
The Death and Transfiguration of Mirex: An Examination of the Integrity of Settlements Under FIFRA
Thomas O. McGarity, The Death and Transfiguration of Mirex: An Examination of the Integrity of Settlements Under FIFRA, 3 Harvard Environmental Law Review 112 (1979).
year-1977
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Article
The Courts, the Agencies, and National Environmental Policy Act Threshold Issues
Thomas O. McGarity, The Courts, the Agencies, and National Environmental Policy Act Threshold Issues, 55 Texas Law Review 801 (1977).
year-1972
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Book
The Two Union Problem: Stumbling Block in the Evolution of the Successorship Problem
Thomas O. McGarity, The Two Union Problem: Stumbling Block in the Evolution of the Successorship Problem (Austin: University of Texas School of Law, 1972).
fall 2025
- Torts