Environmental Law
EPA's IRIS Program: Evaluating the Science and Process behind Chemical Risk Assessment, Congressional Testimony (2011)
Opening the Industry Playbook: Myths and Truths in the Debate over BPA Regulation (with Thomas McGarity, Matthew Shudtz, and Lena Pons) (2011)
For the last two decades, scientists have amassed evidence that bisphenol A (BPA) poses a...
Testimony of Rena Steinzor…before the U.S. House of Representatives, Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Environment and Economics. 112th Congress, 1st Session (2011), Congressional Testimony (2011)
Environmental regulations have saved millions of lives, preventing chronic respiratory illness and heart attacks in...
Lessons from the North Sea: Should "Safety Cases" Come to America?, 38 Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review (2011)
The catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last spring and summer has triggered...
Constitutional Law
The Constitution and Our Debt to the Future, Beyond Environmental Law: Policy Proposals for a Better Environmental Future (2010)
Health and safety laws have always been justified as manifestations of congressional authority to regulate...
Unfunded Environmental Mandates and the "New (New) Federalism": Devolution, Revolution, or Reform, 81 Minnesota Law Review 97 (1996)
Health Law
Opening the Industry Playbook: Myths and Truths in the Debate over BPA Regulation (with Thomas McGarity, Matthew Shudtz, and Lena Pons) (2011)
For the last two decades, scientists have amassed evidence that bisphenol A (BPA) poses a...
High Crimes, Not Misdemeanors: Deterring the Production of Unsafe Food, 19 Health Matrix (2010)
In the fall of 2008, Minnesota public health officials became alarmed by an unusually high...
Mother Earth and Uncle Sam: How Pollution and Hollow Government Hurt our Kids, Book Gallery (2007)
In this compelling study, Rena Steinzor highlights the ways in which the government, over the...
Administrative Law
EPA's IRIS Program: Evaluating the Science and Process behind Chemical Risk Assessment, Congressional Testimony (2011)
The People's Agents and the Battle to Protect the American Public (with Sidney A. Shapiro), Book Gallery (2010)
Reasonable people disagree about the reach of the federal government, but there is near-universal consensus...
Interim Report on the Administrative Law, Process and Procedure Project for the 21st Century, Congressional Testimony (2006)
The People's Agent: Executive Branch Secrecy and Accountability in an Age of Terrorism (with Sidney A. Shapiro), 69 Law and Contemporary Problems 99 (2006)
The increase in government secrecy is an important and troubling policy trend. Although the trend...
Regulatory Law and Policy
EPA's IRIS Program: Evaluating the Science and Process behind Chemical Risk Assessment, Congressional Testimony (2011)
Opening the Industry Playbook: Myths and Truths in the Debate over BPA Regulation (with Thomas McGarity, Matthew Shudtz, and Lena Pons) (2011)
For the last two decades, scientists have amassed evidence that bisphenol A (BPA) poses a...
Twelve Crucial Health, Safety, and Environmental Regulations: Will the Obama Administration Finish in Time? (with Amy Sinden, Matthew Shudtz, James Goodwin, Yee Huang, and Lena Pons), (2011)
When President Obama came to the White House and put his appointees in place, they...
Testimony of Rena Steinzor…before the U.S. House of Representatives, Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Environment and Economics. 112th Congress, 1st Session (2011), Congressional Testimony (2011)
Environmental regulations have saved millions of lives, preventing chronic respiratory illness and heart attacks in...
Legal Education
The Unplanned Obsolescence of American Legal Education (with Alan D. Hornstein), 75 Temple Law Review 447 (2002)
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Rescuing Science from Politics: Regulation and the Distortion of Scientific Research (with Wendy E. Wagner), Book Gallery (2006)
Rescuing Science from Politics debuts chapters by the nation's leading academics in law, science, and...