Bipartisan Policy Center

Joe A. Worsham Centennial Professor at the University Of Texas School Of Law; Professor, Case Law School - University of Texas

1.Wendy E. Wagner is the Joe A. Worsham Centennial Professor at the University Of Texas School Of Law and recently joined the Case Law School faculty as a Professor through a joint, half-time arrangement with the University of Texas. Prior to joining the University of Texas Law faculty, Wagner was a Professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law and School of Management, and was a Visiting Professor at the Columbia Law School and the Vanderbilt Law School. She writes primarily in the area of environmental law and science, exploring the ways that science is used and misused in decision-making by the courts, Congress, and the agencies. Wagner has participated as an officer or committee member in a number of professional societies, including several sections of the American Bar Association, the Society for Risk Analysis, the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, and has served on several National Academy of Sciences committees. Wagner began her legal career in 1987, when she served as a law clerk for the Honorable Albert Engel, the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She then served as an Honors Attorney at the Environmental Enforcement Section of the Environment Division at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Wagner then moved to the General Counsel Office of the Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 1991 where she served as the Pollution Control Coordinator and established a central office, with six satellite legal offices, to manage and advise USDA agencies on compliance under the pollution control laws.

Science for Policy Project, Science for Policy Project - Panel Members