Program on Law, the Environment and the Economy: Faculty

Jason Johnston

Johnston is the founding Director of PLEE [originally known as the Program on Law and the Environment (POLE)] and the Robert G. Fuller Jr. Professor of Public Law. Johnston’s research includes both theoretical and empirical projects exploring various aspects of natural resource and environmental law and policy, as well as more general studies of property rights and legal entitlements. He is currently in the midst of book-length projects on the law and economics of corporate environmentalism and the centralization of environmental and natural resource regulation, and has organized a first-of-its kind interdisciplinary conference on the law, economics and science of liability for global warming.

His dozens of published articles and book chapters include “Tradable Pollution Permits and the Regulatory Game,” forthcoming in Moving to Markets in Environmental Regulation: Lessons from Twenty Years of Experience (Charles Kolstad and Jody Freeman, eds., forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2006); “The Tragedy of Centralization: The Political Economics of American Natural Resource Federalism,” 74 University of Colorado Law Review 487–649 (2003); “Paradoxes of the Safe Society: A Rational Actor Approach to the Reconceptualization of Risk and the Reformation of Risk Regulation,” 150 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 747-786 (2003); “A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Alternative Institutions for Regulatory Cost-Benefit Analysis,” 150 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1343-1428 (2002); and, “The Law and Economics of Environmental Contracts,” in Kurt Deketelaere and Eric Orts, eds., Environmental Contracts: Comparative Approaches to Regulatory Innovation in the United States and Europe 271-304 (2000). Johnston has served as a Regent for the Policy Academy of the Multistate Working Group on Environmental Management Systems, on the Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association and on the National Science Foundation's Law and Social Science grant review panel. He was an Olin Visiting Fellow at the University of Southern California Law Center and Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. He teaches the core environmental law and policy and natural resource law and policy courses, plus various seminars. Johnston graduated from Dartmouth with his A.B. and obtained both his J.D. and Ph.D. (in economics) from Michigan. [More] [Hide]

Matthew Adler

The Leon Meltzer Professor of Law, Adler is the nation’s leader in the application of rigorous philosophical techniques to the problems of public law and regulation. His work in environmental and natural resource regulation has undertaken pathbreaking philosophical analysis of the normative foundations of cost-benefit analysis and risk assessment and risk regulation. Among his dozens of publications include Matthew D. Adler & Eric A. Posner, New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis (Harvard Univ. Press, 2006); "Equity Analysis and Natural Hazards Policy," in On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina 129 (Ronald Daniels et al eds., 2006); "Against 'Individual Risk': A Sympathetic Critique of Risk Assessment," 153 University of Pennsylvania Law Review. 1121 (2005); and "Fear Assessment: Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Pricing of Fear and Anexiety," 79 Chicago-Kent Law Review 977 (2004). Adler has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago and University of Virginia law schools. At Penn, he regularly teaches courses in administrative law and risk regulation. Adler obtained both his B.A and J.D. from Yale, and also holds an M. Litt. from Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar. [More] [Hide]

Howard Chang

The Earle Hepburn Professor of Law, Chang’s scholarship has made pathbreaking contributions to our understanding of the relationship between environmental law and international trade law. His recent work focuses on the economic incentives created by the federal Superfund law and Brownfields laws. Chang currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association. Among his many significant publications are "Risk Regulation, Endogenous Public Concerns, and the Hormones Dispute: Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself?," 77 Southern California Law Review 743 (2004), "Incentives to Settle Under Joint and Several Liability: An Empirical Analysis of Superfund Litigation," 29 Journal of Legal Studies 205 (2000) (with Hilary Sigman); and "An Economic Analysis of Trade Measures to Protect the Global Environment," 83 Georgetown Law Journal 2131 (1995). Chang has taught as a visiting professor at Georgetown University, Stanford University, Harvard University, New York University, and the University of Michigan. At Penn Law, Chang teaches the core International Environmental Law course. Chang obtained both his A.B. and J.D from Harvard, and also holds an M.P.A (economics and public policy) from Princeton and his S.M. and Ph.D (economics) from M.I.T. [More] [Hide]

Cary Coglianese

Formerly on the faculty of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Coglianese is the Edward B. Shils Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also a Professor of Political Science and the Director of the Penn Program on Regulation. Coglianese is a world leader in both the empirical study and practical design of alternative environmental regulatory approaches and decision making processes. He serves as Vice Chair of the Innovation, Management Systems, and Trading Committee of the American Bar Association's section on Environment, Energy, and Resources.His many publications include Leveraging the Private Sector: Management-Based Strategies for Improving Environmental Performance (Coglianese and Nash, eds., Resources for the Future Press, 2006), "Shifting Sands: The Limits of Science in Setting Risk Standards," 152 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1255 (2004) (with Gary Marchant); "Program Evaluation of Environmental Policies: Toward Evidence-Based Decision Making," in National Research Council, Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities for Environmental Decision Making 246-273 (National Academies Press, 2005) (with Lori Snyder Bennear); and "Is Satisfaction Success? Evaluating Public Participation in Regulatory Policy Making," in Rosemary O'Leary and Lisa Bingham, eds., The Promise and Performance of Environmental Conflict Resolution 69-86 (Resources for theFuture Press, 2003) (translated as "¿La Satisfacción de los Participanteses Sinónimo de Éxito? Una Evaluación de la Participación Pública en elProceso de Elaboración de Reglamentos," in Revista Andaluza de Administración Pública 50: 83-105 (2003)). Coglianese has taught as a visiting professor at Stanford Law School and the Vanderbilt University School of Law. At Penn, he teaches seminars on environmental regulatory reform as well as the core course in Environmental Law and Policy. Along with Jason Johnston, he is a Law School co-organizer of the new Penn Seminar on Catastrophic Risk Regulation. Coglianese graduated from Albertson College with his A.B., and then obtained from the University of Michigan not only his J.D. but also an M.P.P. (public policy) and Ph.D. in political science. [More] [Hide]

Wendell Pritchett

Wendell Pritchett is one of the nation’s leading urban policy scholars, and is at the forefront on interdisciplinary research on the impact that housing and urban renewal policies have had in shaping the urban environment. His recent articles “Beyond Kelo: Thinking About Urban Development in the 21st Century,” 21 Georgia State Law Review __ (Fall 2006)(forthcoming), and “The ‘Public Menace’ of Blight: Urban Renewal and the Private Uses of Eminent Domain,” 21 Yale Law & Policy Review 1 (Spring 2002) are pathbreaking explications of the history of the use of the public eminent domain power to condemn property for private redevelopment. His many publications span the fields of both political history and law and also include Property Law and Policy: A Comparative Institutional Perspective, Second Edition, with John P. Dwyer and Peter S. Menell (Foundation Press, 2007)(forthcoming) and “Which Urban Crisis: Regionalism, Race and Urban Policy, 1960-1974,” 32 Journal of Urban History __ (Spring 2007)(forthcoming). Before joining the Penn Law faculty, Pritchett was Assistant Professor of History at Baruch College, City University of New York. At Penn Law, he teaches courses in land use planning, local government law, and seminars in the area of urban development policy. Pritchett obtained his A.B. from Brown, his J.D. from Yale, and Ph.D. in history from Penn. [More] [Hide]

Adjuncts & Lecturers

Robert D. Fox

Robert D. Fox is a partner at Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP, a Philadelphia-based firm that concentrates in the practice of environmental and land use law. His work experience includes compliance counseling for business and industry regarding hazardous and municipal waste regulations, Superfund matters, storage tank issues and real estate transactions and real property development, including wetlands permitting, site contamination and brownfield redevelopment issues; and litigating environmental matters before federal and state courts and administrative agencies. Fox is a member of the Environment, Energy and Resources Section of the American Bar Association, the Environmental, Mineral and Natural Resources Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Environmental Law Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association, and the Delaware Valley Environmental Inn of Court. [More] [Hide]

Joseph M. Manko

Joseph M. Manko is a founding partner of Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 1991. He has lectured on a wide variety of environmental topics including Superfund, land recycling, indoor air liability, and the financial disclosure of environmental liabilities.

Manko serves as a distinguished neutral for environmental issues for the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution, ADR Options, Inc., and the Dispute Resolution Institute. He also serves on the CPR Commission on the Future of Arbitration which recently published Commercial Arbitration at its Best-Successful Strategies for Business Users. He has served as a Master for the Delaware Valley Environmental American Inn of Court since 1997. Earlier in his career, he served as chairman of the Environmental Department at Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen and as the Regional Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Middle Atlantic Region. [More] [Hide]