SCHOOL OF LAW

Wendy E Wagner

Joe A. Worsham Centennial Professor

JD Yale
MES Yale
BA Hanover College

Professor Wagner is a leading authority on the use of science by environmental policy-makers. She received a Masters of Environmental Studies in 1984 and her law degree in 1987, 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 practiced for four years, first as an Honors Attorney in the Enforcement Division of the Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources Division, and then as 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, where she established herself as a prolific scholar. Among her many articles, "The Science Charade in Toxic Risk Regulation" (Columbia Law Review, 1995) and "Equal Treatment for Regulatory Science" (co-authored with David Michaels in American Journal of Law and Medicine, 2004) were chosen as one of the best environmental law articles of the year and reprinted in the Land Use and Environmental Law Review. Professor Wagner was also a visiting professor at Columbia and Vanderbilt Law Schools. In 2008 Wagner re-joined the Case faculty half-time, where she teaches one semester each year.

She currently serves on the National Research Council's Committee on Reducing Stormwater Discharge Contributions to Water Pollution. Professor Wagner is also a member scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform.