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Cary Coglianese
Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science; Director, Penn Program on Regulation

Cary Coglianese
Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science; Director, Penn Program on Regulation

Tel: 215.898.6867
Email: cary_coglianese@law.upenn.edu

Expertise

  • Administrative Law
  • Government Regulation
  • Environmental Law

Bio

Cary Coglianese specializes in the study of regulation and regulatory processes, with a particular emphasis on the empirical evaluation of alternative regulatory strategies and the role of conflict and cooperation in business-government relations. [More]

Cary Coglianese specializes in the study of regulation and regulatory processes, with a particular emphasis on the empirical evaluation of alternative regulatory strategies and the role of conflict and cooperation in business-government relations. His recent books include: Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence of U.S. Regulation, Import Safety: Regulatory Governance in the Global Economy; Regulation and Regulatory Processes; and Leveraging the Private Sector: Management-Based Strategies for Improving Environmental Performance. He has also recently written on climate change policy, public participation and transparency in federal rulemaking, and voluntary environmental programs. Coglianese was a founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal Regulation & Governance, and he founded and serves as advisor to RegBlog.org.

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Representative Professional Positions

Penn School of Arts & Sciences – Professor of Political Science (2006- )

Penn Program on Regulation – Director (2006- )

Penn Law – Deputy Dean (2009-10); Associate Dean (2008-09); Edward B. Shils Professor of Law (2006- )

Harvard – Senior Research Fellow (2006-07); Associate Professor of Public Policy (1998-2006); Assistant Professor of Public Policy (1994-98)

Visiting Professor – Vanderbilt, Penn Law, Stanford

Wharton School Risk Management & Decision Processes Center – Research Fellow (2006- )

Representative Publications

REGULATORY BREAKDOWN? THE CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE IN U.S. REGULATION (University of Pennsylvania Press) (forthcoming)

Oversight in Hindsight: Assessing the U.S. Regulatory System in the Wake of Calamity, in REGULATORY BREAKDOWN? THE CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE IN U.S. REGULATION (Cary Coglianese ed., Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming) (with Chris Carrigan). (forthcoming)

How to Evaluate Regulatory Performance, in MEASURING REGULATORY PERFORMANCE (Christiane Arndt & Gregory Bounds, eds. OECD Publishing, forthcoming). (forthcoming)

Enchancing Public Access to Online Rulemaking Information, __ MICH. J. ENVTL. & ADMIN. L __ (forthcoming). (forthcoming)

The Politics of Regulation: From New Institutionalism to New Governance, 14 ANN. REV. POL. SCI. 107 (2011) (with Christopher Carrigan).
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Process Choice, 5 REG. & GOVERNANCE 250 (2011) (reviewing ANDREW MORRISS ET AL., REGULATION BY LITIGATION (2008)).

Engaging Business in the Regulation of Nanotechnology, in GOVERNING UNCERTAINTY: ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION IN THE SHADOW OF NANOTECHNOLOGY (Christopher Bosso, ed., Johns Hopkins Univ./Resources for the Future Press, 2010).

Environmental Regulation, in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK ON EMPIRICAL LEGAL RESEARCH (Peter Cane and Herbert M. Kritzer, eds. 2010) (with Catherine Courcy).

Presidential Control of Administrative Agencies: A Debate over Law or Politics?, 12 U. PA. J. CONST. L. 637 (2010).
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Beyond Compliance: Explaining Business Participation in Voluntary Environmental Programs, in EXPLAINING COMPLIANCE: BUSINESS RESPONSES TO REGULATION (Vibeke Lehmann Nielsen and Christine Parker, eds.) (with Jonathan Borck) (forthcoming 2011)

The Law and Economics of Risk Regulation, in WILEY ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCE (James J. Cochran, ed. 2011).

The Transparency President? The Obama Adminsitration and Open Government, 22 GOVERNANCE 529 (2009).
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Transparency and Public Participation in the Federal Rulemaking Process: Recommendations for the New Administration, 77 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 924 (2009) (with Heather Kilmartin & Evan Mendelson).
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Voluntary Environmental Programs: Assessing Their Effectiveness, 34 ANN. REV. ENV'T & RESOURCES 305 (2009) (with Jonathan C. Borck).

Government Clubs: Theory and Evidence from Voluntary Environmental Programs, in Matthew Potoski & Aseem Prakash, eds., VOLUNTARY PROGRAMS: A CLUB THEORY APPROACH (MIT Press, 2009) (with Jennifer Nash).
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Environmental Leadership Programs: Toward an Empirical Assessment of their Performance, 35 ECOLOGY L.Q. 771 (2008) (with Jonathan Borck & Jennifer Nash).
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The Managerial Turn in Environmental Policy, 17 N.Y.U. ENVTL. L.J. 54 (2008).
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Evaluating the Social Effects of Environmental Leadership Programs, 38 ENVT'L L. REP. 10697 (2008) (with Jonathan Borck & Jennifer Nash).
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Constructing the License to Operate: Internal Factors and their Influence on Corporate Environmental Decisions, 30 LAW & POL'Y 73 (2008) (with Jennifer A. Howard-Grenville and Jennifer Nash).
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The Rhetoric and Reality of Regulatory Reform, 25 YALE J. ON REG. 85 (2008).
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REGULATION AND REGULATORY PROCESSES (Ashgate, 2007) (with Robert A. Kagan)
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Weak Democracy, Strong Information: The Role of Information Technology in the Rulemaking Process, in Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger & David Lazer, eds., FROM ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT TO INFORMATION GOVERNMENT: GOVERNING IN THE 21ST CENTURY (MIT Press, 2007).
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Can Regulation and Governance Make a Difference?, 1 REGULATION & GOVERNANCE 1 (2007) (with John Braithwaite and David Levi-Faur).
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Citizen Participation in Rulemaking: Past, Present, and Future, 55 DUKE L.J. 943 (2006).
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Management-Based Strategies for Improving Private-Sector Environmental Performance, 36 ENVTL. L. REP.10003-10016 (2006) (with Jennifer Nash)
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Current & Recent Research

Current Working Papers

First Generation E-Rulemaking: An Assessment of Regulatory Agency Websites, Public Law Research Paper No. 07-15, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and University of Pennsylvania Law School Date posted to database: April 15, 2007 (with Stuart Shapiro).
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EPA’s National Environmental Performance Track: A Retrospective Assessment (with Jennifer Nash) (forthcoming)

Infection Control and Management Based Regulation (with David Lazer) (forthcoming)

Business and Environmental Law, in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF BUSINESS AND THE ENVIRONMENT (Tima Bansal & Andrew J. Hoffman, eds., forthcoming, Dec. 2011) (with Ryan Anderson). (forthcoming 2011)

The Impact of Judicial Review on Regulatory Policy: Reexamining NHTSA’s Rulemaking Retreat (forthcoming)

The Toxics Use Reduction Act: The Design and Implementation of a Management-Based Environmental Regulation (with Jennifer Nash) (forthcoming)

Beyond Compliance: Why Firms Join Voluntary Environmental Programs and Why It Matters (with Jennifer Nash). (forthcoming)

Flexible Approaches to Environmental Regulation, in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY (Michael Kraft & Sheldon Kamieniecki, eds., forthcoming) (with Lori S. Bennear) (forthcoming)

Federal Agency Use of Electronic Media in the Rulemaking Process, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 11-32. (forthcoming)
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Representative Professional Activities

Member, Editorial Board, Regulation & Governance, 2009-

Council Member, American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, 2007-2010

Council Member, American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, 2007-2010

Member, American Bar Association Committee on the Status & Future of Federal E-Rule-making, 2007 -2008

Testimony – Massachusetts Joint Committee on Public Service, 2006

Member, Publications Committee, Law & Society Association, 2006-

Editorial Board – International Journal of Electronic Governance, 2005 -

Co-Chair, Rulemaking Committee, American Bar Association’s Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, 2010-

Editor, Regulation & Governance (international, peer-reviewed journal), 2005-2008

 
Cary Coglianese

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Education

  • Ph.D. (political science) - University of Michigan - '94
  • J.D. - University of Michigan - '91
  • M.P.P. (public policy) - University of Michigan - '91
  • A.B. - The College of Idaho - '85

Courses Taught

  • Administrative Law
  • Environmental Law
  • Policy Analysis

Research Areas

  • Administrative Law
  • Conflict and Disputing
  • Government
  • Regulation
  • Regulatory Policymaking

AREAS OF EXPERTISE FOR MEDIA

  • Administrative Law
  • Environmental Regulation
  • Executive Branch & Federal Agencies
  • Government Litigation
  • Public Policy Analysis
  • Regulatory Policymaking
  • Transparency & Open Government

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