Law professor Wendy Wagner ’82 returns to deliver Constitution Day address
University of Texas at Austin School of Law Professor Wendy Wagner ‘82 will present a special Constitution Day lecture at Hanover College.
Wagner’s address, “The Environment and the Constitution,” will be held Thursday, Sept. 26, at 7 p.m. in the Ogle Center. The event is open to the public, free of charge.
Wagner holds the Joe A. Worsham Centennial Professorship in Law and the William Benjamin Wynne Professorship in Law. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Texas, she taught at Case Western Law School and was a visiting professor at Columbia University and Vanderbilt University law schools.
A leading authority on the use of science by environmental policymakers, Wagner’s research focuses on the intersection of law and science, with particular attention to environmental policy. Her 2018 book, “Dynamic Rulemaking,” co-authored with colleagues Tom McGarity, Bill West and Lisa Peters, was awarded the American Bar Association Award for Scholarship in Administrative Law. “Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research,” written with McGarity, earned the Hamilton Grand Prize as the best book published at the University of Texas in 2009.
In the past year, she has been quoted in stories published by USA Today, Environmental Health News and The Guardian, She has also served as a panelist at the Harvard Kennedy School Conference on Risk and Uncertainty in the United States and Brazil and was a presenter at the Vanderbilt and Tilburg Conference on Use of Science in the Courts.
A member-scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform, Wagner has served as a member of the Bipartisan Policy Center Committee on Regulatory Science, as well as numerous National Academies of Science committees. She has also served on governing councils of the American Bar Association Section of Administrative Law, National Conference of Scientists and Lawyers, and Society for Risk Analysis.
Wagner received a Master of Environmental Studies and law degree at Yale University, where she served as senior editor of the Yale Law Journal and managing editor of the Yale Journal of Regulation. Before entering academia, she practiced for four years as an honors attorney in the U.S. Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and pollution control coordinator with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of the General Counsel.
