Cary Coglianese, the Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science and the founding Director of the Penn Program on Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania, specializes in the study of administrative law and regulatory policy, with an emphasis on the design and evaluation of alternative processes and strategies and the role of public participation, technology, and business-government relations in policymaking.
The author of more than 300 articles, book chapters, reports, and essays on a broad range of administrative law and regulatory policy issues, Coglianese served as a founding editor of the international peer-reviewed journal, Regulation & Governance. He also founded and serves as the faculty advisor of The Regulatory Review, a global online publication that covers a full range regulatory law and policy issues. He previously served as the Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania’s law school
Prior to joining the Penn faculty, he spent a dozen years on the faculty at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government where he founded and chaired the school’s Regulatory Policy Program and was an affiliated scholar at the Harvard Law School. He also has served as a visiting law professor at Stanford University and Vanderbilt University.
He has chaired and served on National Academy of Sciences committees as well as committees of the American Bar Association’s Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy. A Senior Fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), Coglianese has served as an appointed Public Member of ACUS and as the chair of ACUS’s Rulemaking Committee. He is a member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
Coglianese teaches courses in administrative law, environmental law, regulatory law and policy, and policy analysis. In addition, he serves as the faculty director for and teaches in an executive education program on regulatory analysis and decision-making.
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Administrative law
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Artificial intelligence and regulation
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Transparency and open government
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Empirical analysis and regulatory law
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Management-based regulation
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Performance-based regulation
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Unrules and obligation management
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Climate change policy
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Environmental disputes and litigation
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Consensus-based decision-making
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Private governance
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Voluntary environmental programs
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Developer, academic director, and instructor of executive education on regulatory analysis and decision-making
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Innovator in experiential learning via online publishing
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Pioneer of course materials on private governance
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Creator and narrator of race and regulation podcast series
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Instructor of law and policy school courses in:
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administrative law
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environmental law and policy
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policy analysis
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professional ethics
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regulatory law and policy
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research methods
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The Regulatory Review (daily online publication)
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Penn Program on Regulation, University of Pennsylvania
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Government and Public Affairs Initiative, University of Pennsylvania
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Regulation & Governance (international peer-reviewed journal)
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Regulatory Policy Program, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government
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Politics Research Group, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government
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Collaborative Research Network on Regulatory Governance, Law and Society Association
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Chair, Administrative Conference of the United States Rulemaking Committee
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Chair, National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on New Coast Guard Authorities
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Chair, Nonpartisan Task Force on Transparency and the Rulemaking Process
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Co-Chair, Expert Panel on Affordability in Safe Drinking Water Act Rulemakings
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Council Member and Chair of Regulatory Policy Committee, American Bar Association Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy
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Deputy Dean, University of Pennsylvania Law School