Wendy E. Wagner
- Richard Dale Endowed Chair in Law
- Professor
Wendy Wagner is a leading authority on the use of science by environmental policy-makers. Her research focuses on administrative processes governing the bureaucratic state, the regulation of toxic substances, and the intersection of law and science. Professor Wagner has authored three books and over six dozen articles and book chapters on a wide range of topics, ranging from corporate accountability to causation in torts. Outside of her academic duties, Wagner has served on various academic and professional organizations, including several National Academies of Science committees, governing committees of the ABA and the Society for Risk Analysis, and as a consultant to ACUS.
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Professor Wagner is a leading authority on the use of science by environmental policy-makers. She received a Masters of Environmental Studies and her law degree, both from Yale, where she was Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal and Managing Editor of the Yale Journal of Regulation. Before entering teaching, she clerked for the Honorable Albert Engel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She then practiced law for four years, first as an Honors Attorney in the Civil Enforcement Section of the Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources Division, and then as the Pollution Control Coordinator with the Department of Agriculture's Office of the General Counsel. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Texas, Professor Wagner taught at Case Western Law School and was a visiting professor at Columbia and Vanderbilt Law Schools.
Prof. Wagner’s research focuses on the design of administrative process, with particular attention to environmental policy and science-intensive regulations. She has published more than six dozen articles and book chapters and three books on a wide range of topics. Her work has won multiple awards, including the Hamilton Grand Prize for the best book published at UT in 2009 ("Bending Science" with Tom McGarity) and the 2018 American Bar Association Award for Scholarship in Administrative Law ("Dynamic Rulemaking" with Tom McGarity, Bill West and Lisa Peters).
Prof. Wagner has served or is serving on several National Academies of Science Committees, the Bipartisan Policy Center Committee on Regulatory Science, the National Conference of Scientists and Lawyers (AAAS-ABA Committee), the Administrative New Scholarship Roundtable, and as a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the U.S. (ACUS) on a project on the agencies’ use of science. Wagner also served on governing councils of the ABA Administrative Law Section and the Society for Risk Analysis. She is a Member Scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform.
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year-2009
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Other Publication
Regulatory Reinforcement of Journal Conflict of Interest Disclosures
Wendy E. Wagner, Regulatory Reinforcement of Journal Conflict of Interest Disclosures, 63 Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 606 (2009) (with Tom McGarity).
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Book Chapter
The Clean Air Interstate Rule's Regulatory Impact Analysis: Advocacy Dressed up as Policy Analysis
Wendy E. Wagner, The Clean Air Interstate Rule's Regulatory Impact Analysis: Advocacy Dressed up as Policy Analysis, in Reforming Regulatory Impact Analysis at 56 (Richard Morgenstern, et al., Resources for the Future Press, 2009).
year-2008
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Book
BENDING SCIENCE: HOW SPECIAL INTERESTS CORRUPT PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH
Thomas O McGarity and Wendy E. Wagner, BENDING SCIENCE: HOW SPECIAL INTERESTS CORRUPT PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH (Harvard University Press, November 1, 2008). View Online
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Article
Emerging Science, Adaptive Regulation, and the Problem of Rulemaking Ruts
Wendy E. Wagner, Emerging Science, Adaptive Regulation, and the Problem of Rulemaking Ruts [Symposium: Harnessing the Power of Information for the Next Generation of Environmental Law], 86 Texas Law Review 1701 (2008) (with Lynn E. Blais).
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Other Publication
How Do You Retire a Person Like Melvyn?
Wendy E. Wagner, How Do You Retire a Person Like Melvyn?, 58 Case Western Reserve Law Review 1011 (2008). -
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Using Competition-Based Regulation to Bridge the Toxics Data Gap
Wendy E. Wagner, Using Competition-Based Regulation to Bridge the Toxics Data Gap [Symposium: Missing Information: The Scientific Data Gap in Conservation and Chemical Regulation] 83 Indiana Law Journal 629 (2008).
year-2007
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Article
When All Else Fails: Regulating Risky Products Through Tort Litigation
Wendy E. Wagner, When All Else Fails: Regulating Risky Products Through Tort Litigation, 95 Georgetown Law Journal 693 (2007).
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Other Publication
The Science and the Law of Toxics
Wendy E. Wagner, The Science and the Law of Toxics [discussion] [The Public's Health and the Law in the 21st Century: Fifth Annual Partnership Conference], 35 The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 63 (2007) (with Thomas Sinks & Doug Farquhar).
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Children's Health and Environmental Exposure Risks: Information Gaps, Scientific Uncertainty, and Regulatory Reform
Lynn E. Blais, Children's Health and Environmental Exposure Risks: Information Gaps, Scientific Uncertainty, and Regulatory Reform, 17 Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 249 (2007) (with Wendy Wagner).
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The Perils of Relying on Interested Parties to Evaluate Scientific Quality
Wendy E. Wagner, The Perils of Relying on Interested Parties to Evaluate Scientific Quality, 95 American Journal of Public Health S99 (2005).
year-2006
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Book
Rescuing Science from Politics: Regulation and the Distortion of Scientific Research
Wendy E. Wagner and Rena Steinzor (eds.), Rescuing Science from Politics: Regulation and the Distortion of Scientific Research (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
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Stormy Regulation: The Problems that Result when Stormwater (and Other) Regulatory Programs Neglect to Account for Limitations in Scientific and Technical Information
Wendy E. Wagner, Stormy Regulation: The Problems that Result when Stormwater (and Other) Regulatory Programs Neglect to Account for Limitations in Scientific and Technical Information, 9 Chapman Law Review 191 (2006).
year-2005
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Book Chapter
Science and Law
Science and Law, in Science, Technology, and Society (Sal Restivo ed.) 255 Oxford U. Press 2005)
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Book Chapter
Stubborn Information Problems & the Regulatory Benefits of Gun Litigation
Wendy E. Wagner, Stubborn Information Problems & the Regulatory Benefits of Gun Litigation, in Suing the Gun Industry: A Battle at the Crossroads of Gun Control and Mass Torts 271 (Timothy D. Lytton ed.; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005).
year-2004
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EPA's Lag in Responding to Scientific Advancements: A Reply to Conrad
Wendy E. Wagner, EPA's Lag in Responding to Scientific Advancements: A Reply to Conrad, 34 Environmental Law Reporter News & Analysis 10497 (2004). -
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Equal Treatment for Regulatory Science: Extending the Controls Governing the Quality of Public Research to Private Research
Wendy E. Wagner, Equal Treatment for Regulatory Science: Extending the Controls Governing the Quality of Public Research to Private Research, 30 American Journal of Law & Medicine 119 (2004) (with David Michaels).
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Commons Ignorance: The Failure of Environmental Law to Produce Needed Information on Health and the Environment
Wendy E. Wagner, Commons Ignorance: The Failure of Environmental Law to Produce Needed Information on Health and the Environment, 53 Duke Law Journal 1619 (2004).
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Importing Daubert to Administrative Agencies Through the Information Quality Act
Wendy E. Wagner, Importing Daubert to Administrative Agencies Through the Information Quality Act, 12 Journal of Law & Policy 589 (2004).
year-2003
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Article
Legal Aspects of the Regulatory Use of Environmental Modeling
Wendy E. Wagner, Legal Aspects of the Regulatory Use of Environmental Modeling, 10 Environmental Law Reporter 10751 (2003) (with Tom McGarity).
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Book Chapter
Environmental and Natural Resource Regulation
Wendy E. Wagner, Environmental and Natural Resource Regulation, in 2001-2002 Developments in Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice 299 (Jeffrey S. Lubbers ed.; Chicago: ABA Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, 2003) (with Jonathan Entin, & Carrie A. Von Hoff).