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45 Md. L. Rev. 253 (1986)
Regulatory Reform in the Reagan Era

handle is hein.journals/mllr45 and id is 271 raw text is: Maryland Law Review VOLUME 45 1986 NUMBER 2 © Copyright Maryland Law Review, Inc. 1986 Articles REGULATORY REFORM IN THE REAGAN ERA THOMAS 0. MCGARITY* I. INTRODUCTION The three great social reform movements of the twentieth cen- tury-the Progressive movement at the beginning of the twentieth century; the New Deal of the 1930s; and the Civil Rights/Con- sumer/Environmental movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s-were social responses to perceived abuses of economic and political power by private entities. Fairness, justice, equality, were dominant themes of these movements. The reforms accom- plished by these movements are etched in the laws of the land and institutionalized in regulatory agencies such as the Interstate Com- merce Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Lawyers dominated the process of institutionalizing reforms. They wrote the laws that empowered the regulatory agencies; they were often chosen to lead those agencies; and they have dominated the intricate process of crafting the thousands of rules, regulations, and guidelines that constitute the vital connective tissue between the social commands embodied in the reform legislation and the so- cially desirable conduct of the regulated industries. * B.A., 1971, Rice University; J.D., 1974, University of Texas. Copper K. Ragan Professor of Law, University of Texas School of Law. This Article is a revised version of the 1984 Lawrence and Pearl Gerber Memorial Lecture delivered at the University of Maryland School of Law on November 15, 1984. The author would like to express his appreciation to Mary Sahs, University of Texas Class of 1985, for her research assistance in its preparation.

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