Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008) (with Wendy E. Wagner).
The Preemption War: When Federal Bureaucracies Trump Local Juries (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008).
Breeding Distrust: An Assessment and Recommendations for Improving the Regulation of Plant Derived Genetically Modified Foods (Consumer Federation of America Foundation, Jan. 2001; <http://www.biotech-info.net/Breeding_Distrust.html>) (with Patricia Hansen).
Workers at Risk: The Failed Promise of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993).
The Law of Environmental Protection: Cases, Legislation, Policies (St. Paul: West, 2nd ed. 1992; 1st ed. 1984) (with John E. Bonine).
Reinventing Rationality: the Role of Regulatory Analysis in the Federal Bureaucracy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
An Institutional and Legal Assessment on Instream Aeration Project in the Houston Ship Channel (Austin: Policy Research Institute, The University of Texas, 1986) (with Terrell Blodgett, E. Smeardon & Richard Steward).
The Two Union Problem: Stumbling Block in the Evolution of the Successorship Problem (Austin: University of Texas School of Law, 1972).
Court Takes Up Pre-Emption Doctrine, Austin American-Statesman, November 28, 2008, at A15.
Who Writes the Rules?The Dallas Morning News, May 9, 2008, at 23A.
Corporate Accountability for Scientific Fraud: Ketek and the Perils of Aggressive Agency Preemption, 58 Emory Law Journal 287 (2008).
Hazardous Air Pollutants, Migrating Hot Spots, and the Prospect of Data-Driven Regulation of Complex Industrial Complexes [Symposium: Harnessing the Power of Information for the Next Generation of Environmental Law], 86 Texas Law Review 1445 (2008).
The Complementary Roles of Common Law Courts and Federal Agencies in Producing and Using Policy-Relevant Scientific Information [Symposium: Law, Science, and the Environment Forum: A Meeting of the Minds], 37 Environmental Law 1027 (2007).
Did NEPA Drown New Orleans? The Levees, the Blame Game, and the Hazards of Hindsight, 56 Duke Law Journal 179 (Oct. 2006) (with Douglas A. Kysar).
Medical Malpractice Myths and Realities: Why an Insurance Crisis is Not a Lawsuit Crisis, 39 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 785 (Aug. 2006) (with D. Kysar & K. Sokol).
Resisting Regulation with Blue Ribbon Panels, XXXIII Fordham Urban Law Journal 1157 (2006).
Federal Regulation of Mad Cow Disease Risks, 57 Administrative Law Review 289 (2005).
Regulation and Litigation: Complementary Tools for Environmental Protection, 30 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 371 (2005).
Talk Till Cows Come Home, But Beef Safety Takes Action, Austin American-Statesman, Feb. 12, 2004, at A15.
Only an Independent Agency Can Safeguard Beef, Dallas Morning News, Jan. 6, 2004, at 17A.
MTBE: A Precautionary Tale, 28 Harvard Environmental Law Review 281 (2004).
The Goals of Environmental Legislation, 31 Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 529 (2004).
Our Science is Sound Science and Their Science is Junk Science: Science-Based Strategies for Avoiding Accountability and Responsibility for Risk-Producing Products and Activities, 52 Kansas Law Review 897 (2004).
Beyond the Dirty Dozen: The Bush Administration?s Cautious Approach to Listing New Persistent Organic Pollutants and the Future of the Stockholm Convention, 28 William & Mary Environmental Law & Policy Review 1 (2003) (with Pep Fuller).
Legal Aspects of the Regulatory Use of Environmental Modeling, 10 Environmental Law Reporter 10751 (2003) (with Wendy Wagner).
On the Prospect of ?Daubertizing? Judicial Review of Risk Assessment, 66 Law & Contemporary Problems 155 (2003).
Seeds of Distrust: Federal Regulation of Genetically Modified Foods, 35 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 403 (2002).
Professor Sunstein?s Fuzzy Math, 90 Georgetown Law Journal 2341 (2002).
Counting the Cost of Health, Safety, and Environmental Regulation [Symposium: The Impact of Civil Justice on the American Economy & Polity], 80 Texas Law Review 1997 (2002) (with Ruth Ruttenberg).
Beyond Buckman: Wrongful Manipulation of the Regulatory Process in the Law of Torts, 41 Washburn Law Journal 549 (2002).
Republicans Deal Workers a Setback, Dallas Morning News, Mar. 13, 2001, at 21A.
Proposal for Linking Culpability and Causation to Ensure Corporate Accountability for Toxic Risks, 26 William & Mary Environmental Law & Policy Review 1 (2001).
Politics by Other Means: Law, Science, and Policy in EPA?s Implementation of the Food Quality Protection Act, 53 Administrative Law Review 103 (2001).
Deflecting the Assault: How EPA Survived a ?Disorganized Revolution? by ?Reinventing? Itself a Bit, 31 Environmental Law Reporter: News & Analysis 11249 (2001).
The Clean Air Act at a Crossroads: Statutory Interpretation and Longstanding Administrative Practice in the Shadow of the Delegation Doctrine, 9 NYU Environmental Law Journal 1 (2000).
Missing Milestones: A Critical Look at the Clean Air Act?s VOC Emissions Reduction Program in Nonattainment Areas, 18 Virginia Environmental Law Journal 41 (1999).
A Cost-Benefit State, 50 Administrative Law Review 7 (1998).
The Role of Government Attorneys in Regulatory Agency Rulemaking, 61 Law & Contemporary Problems 19 (1998).
The Courts and the Ossification of Rulemaking: A Response to Professor Seidenfeld, 75 Texas Law Review 525 (1997).
OSHA?s Critics and Regulatory Reform, 31 Wake Forest Law Review 587 (1996) (with Sidney A. Shapiro).
The Expanded Debate Over the Future of the Regulatory State, 63 University of Chicago Law Review 1463 (1996).
Regulating Commuters to Clear the Air: Some Difficulties in Implementing a National Program at the Local Level, 27 Pacific Law Journal 1521 (1996).
Read the Fine Print, New York Times, Jan. 27, 1995, at A27.
On Making Judges Do the Right Thing, 44 Duke Law Journal 1104 (1995).
Radical Technology-Forcing in Environmental Regulation, 27 Loyola L.A. Law Review 943 (1994).
Peer Review in Awarding Federal Grants in the Arts and Sciences, 9 High Technology Law Journal 1 (1994).
The Fifth Annual Robert C. Byrd Conference on the Administrative Process: The First Year of Clinton/Gore: Reinventing Government or Refining Reagan/Bush Initiatives?, 8 Administrative Law Journal of American University 23 (1994) (with others).
Reforming OSHA: Some Thoughts for the Current Legislative Agenda, 31 Houston Law Review 99 (1994).
Science, Policy, and Politics in Judicial Review of Regulations, 3 Accountability in Research 127 (1993).
Bias in Awarding Scientific Grants: A Modest Proposal for an Audit System, 2 Accountability in Research 203 (1992).
Some Thoughts on ?Deossifying? the Rulemaking Process, 41 Duke Law Journal 1385 (1992).
The Internal Structure of EPA Rulemaking, 54 Law & Contemporary Problems 57 (1991).
International Regulation of Deliberate Release Biotechnologies, 26 Texas International Law Journal 423 (1991).
Poverty and the Politics of Occupational Safety and Health, 1 Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 129 (1991) (with Sidney A. Shapiro).
Not So Paradoxical: The Rationale for Technology-Based Regulation, 40 Duke Law Journal 729 (1991). [Reprinted in Law and the Environment: A Multidisciplinary Reader 254 (Robert V. Percival & Dorothy C. Alevizatos eds.; Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997) (with Sidney A. Shapiro).]
Implementing NEPA: Some Specific Issues, 20 Environmental Law 569 (1990).
Biotechnology, 1 Year Book of International Environmental Law 148 (1990).
Public Participation in Risk Regulation, 1 Risk Issues in Health & Safety 103 (1990).
Public Participation in Data Audits, 1 Accountability in Research 47 (1989).
Reorienting OSHA: Regulatory Alternatives and Legislative Reform, 6 Yale Journal on Regulation 1 (1989) (with Sidney A. Shapiro).
Federal Regulation of Agricultural Biotechnologies, 20 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 1089 (1988).
Presidential Control of Regulatory Agency Decisionmaking, 36 American University Law Review 443 (1987).
Regulatory Analysis and Regulatory Reform, 65 Texas Law Review 1234 (1987).
Beyond the Hard Look: A New Standard for Judicial Review?, 2 Natural Resources & Environment 32 (1986).
Regulatory Reform and the Positive State: An Historical Overview, 38 Administrative Law Review 399 (1986).
Regulatory Reform in the Reagan Era, 45 University of Maryland Law Review 253 (1986). [Reprinted in 1987-1988 Corporate Practice Communications 291.]
Bhopal and the Export of Hazardous Technologies, 20 Texas International Law Journal 333 (1985).
Regulating Biotechnology, Issues in Science & Technology, Spring, 1985, at 40.
The New OSHA Rules and the Worker?s Right to Know, Hastings Center Report, Aug. 1984, at 38.
Judicial Review of Scientific Rulemaking, 9 Science, Technology & Human Values 97 (1984).
Commentary: Law, Science, and NEPA, 15 Natural Resources Law 7 (1983).
Media-Quality, Technology, and Cost-Benefit Balancing Strategies for Health and Environmental Regulation, 46 Law & Contemporary Problems 1593 (1983).
Federal Regulation of Emerging Genetic Technologies, 36 Vanderbilt Law Review 461 (1983) (with Karl O. Bayer).
Public Regulation of Recombinant DNA Gene Therapy, 3 Journal of Legal Medicine 185 (1982) (with Sidney A. Shapiro).
Risk-Oriented Employment Screens, 59 Texas Law Review 6 (1981) (with Elinor P. Schroeder).
Contending Approaches to Regulating Laboratory Safety, 28 Kansas Law Review 183 (1980).
Multi-Party Forum Shopping for Appellate Review of Administrative Action, 129 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 302 (1980).
The Trade Secret Status of Health and Safety Testing Information: Reforming Agency Disclosure Policies, 93 Harvard Law Review 837 (1980) (with Sidney A. Shapiro).
Substantive and Procedural Discretion in Administrative Resolution of Science Policy Questions: Regulating Carcinogens in EPA and OSHA, 67 Georgia Law Review 729 (1979).
The Death and Transfiguration of Mirex: An Examination of the Integrity of Settlements Under FIFRA, 3 Harvard Environmental Law Review 112 (1979).
The Courts, the Agencies, and National Environmental Policy Act Threshold Issues, 55 Texas Law Review 801 (1977).
Contributions
The Regulation-Common Law Feedback Loop in Nonpreemptive Regimes, in Preemption Choice: The Theory, Law, and Reality of Federalisms Core Question 235 (William W. Buzbee ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Frankenfood Free: Consumer Sovereignty, Federal Regulation, and Industry Control in Marketing and Choosing Food in the United States, in Labeling Genetically Modified Food: The Philosophical and Legal Debate 128 (Paul Weirich ed.; Oxford University Press, 2007).
Defending Clean Science from Dirty Attacks by Special Interests, in Rescuing Science from Politics: Regulation and the Distortion of Scientific Research (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006) (Wendy E. Wagner & Rena Steinzor eds.).
The Story of the Benzene Case: Judicially Imposed Regulatory Reform Through Risk Assessment, in Environmental Law Stories 141 (R. J. Lazarus & O. A. Houck eds.; New York: Foundation Press, 2005).
International Regulation of Deliberate Release Biotechnologies, in International Responsibility for Environmental Harm (Francesco Francioni & Tullio Scovazzi eds.; London: Graham & Trotman, 1991).
Regulating Biotechnology, in Regulating for the Future: The Creative Balance (Carol Tucker Foreman ed.; Washington, DC: Center for National Policy Press, 1991).
Risk and Trust: The Role of Regulatory Agencies, in Dealing With Risk: The Courts, the Agencies and Congress (Chicago: ABA Committee on Environmental Law, 1986).
Governmental Regulation of Recombinant DNA Research and Manufacturing Processes, Chapter 31 in Comprehensive Biotechnology (Murray Moo-Young ed.; New York: Pergamon Press, 1985) (with Karl O. Bayer).
OSHA?s Generic Carcinogen Policy: Rulemaking Under Scientific and Legal Uncertainty, in Law and Science in Collaboration: Resolving Regulatory Issues in Science and Technology (J. D. Nyhart & Milton M. Carrow eds.; Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1983).
Commentary on the Social Effects of the Development of the Border Region, in Ecology and Development of the Border Region (Stanley R. Ross ed.; M?xico: Asociac?on Nacional de Universidades e Institutos de Ensena?za Superior, 1983).
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).