The University of Texas at Austin   School of Law

Education

• JD University of Texas at Austin
• BA Rice

Areas of Specialty

• Environmental Law
• Torts

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 five influential books: 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 "Hazardous Air Pollutants, Migrating Hot Spots, and the Prospect of Data-Driven Regulation of Complex Industrial Complexes," 86 Tex. L. Rev. 1445 (2008). He is the immediate past president of the Center for Progressive Reform.

Recent Publications

• Freedom to Harm: The Lasting Legacy of the Laissez Faire Revival (New Haven, C.T.: Yale University Press, 2013).
• The End Game of Deregulation: Myopic Risk Management and the Next Catastrophe, 23 Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum 93 (2012) (with Rena I. Steinzor).
• Preempted Worker Protection, Trial, July 2012, at 52.

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Recent Activities

• Presentation

  April 20, 2007

  Lewis and Clark Law School

  On April 20th, delivered a paper on Regulation versus Litigation in Reducing Toxics Risks at a conference on "Law, Science and the Environment" at Lewis and Clark Law School.

• Graylin Lecture

  April 5, 2007

  Wake Forest Law School

  On April 5th, delivered the Graylin Lecture at Wake Forest Law School titled "Bending Science: How Advocates Manipulate Science and Why They Get Away with It."

• Conference Attendance

  March 3, 2007

  University of North Carolina School of Law

  On March 3rd, attended a conference on Corporate Power and Corporate Governance at the University of North Carolina School of Law.

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