Faculty
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. His dozens of publications include New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis (Harvard Univ. Press, 2006) (with Eric. A. Posner); "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 Anxiety," 79 Chicago-Kent Law Review 977 (2004). Adler has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, Columbia University, 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 has made influential contributions to our understanding of the relationship between environmental law and international trade law. His most recent work focuses on the economic incentives created by the federal Superfund law. Chang has served on the Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association. Among his most significant publications are "The Effect of Joint and Several Liability Under Superfund on Brownfields," 27 International Review of Law and Economics 363 (2007) (with Hilary Sigman), "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, the University of Michigan, and the University of Chicago. At Penn Law, Chang teaches the core International Environmental Law course. Chang obtained both his A.B. and his J.D from Harvard and also holds an M.P.A (economics and public policy) from Princeton and an S.M. and Ph.D (economics) from M.I.T. More Hide
Cary Coglianese
Cary Coglianese is the Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also serves as the founding director of the Penn Program on Regulation. He 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 disputing, negotiation, and business-government relations in regulatory policy making. His work has appeared in, among other academic journals, the Administrative Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Law & Society Review, Michigan Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and the Yale Journal on Regulation. His co-edited books include Import Safety: Regulatory Governance in the Global Economy, Regulating from the Inside: Can Environmental Management Systems Achieve Policy Goals?, Leveraging the Private Sector: Management-Based Strategies for Improving Environmental Performance, and Regulation and Regulatory Processes. Prior to joining Penn Law, Coglianese spent a dozen years on the faculty at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he founded and served as chair of the school's Regulatory Policy Program and founding director of its Politics Research Group. He also founded and for seven years chaired the Law & Society Association's international collaborative research network on regulatory governance, and served as a founding editor of the international, peer-reviewed journal Regulation & Governance. Coglianese is a board member of the American Bar Association's Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice and a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He has also spent time teaching as a visiting professor at the law schools at Stanford and Vanderbilt. More Hide
Adjuncts & Fellows
Adam Finkel
Adam Finkel is executive director of the Penn Program on Regulation and a fellow at the Law School. He is one of the nation's leading experts in the evolving field of risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis, with 20 years of experience improving methods of analysis and making risk-based decisions to protect workers and the general public from environmental hazards. Finkel previously served as professor of environmental and occupational health at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) School of Public Health, and as a visiting professor of public and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. From 1995 to 2000, he was director of health standards programs at the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and was responsible for promulgating and evaluating regulations to protect the nation's workers from chemical, radiological, and biological hazards. From 2000 to 2003, he was OSHA's Regional Administrator for the Rocky Mountain states. He recently received the David Rall Award from the American Public Health Association for "a career in advancing science in the service of public health protection."
Finkel's primary research interests are (1) quantifying and communicating the uncertainties in risk estimates, and critically examining the claim that risk estimates are invariably too "conservative"; (2) accounting for variations in human susceptibility to environmental and occupational disease; and (3) evaluating policies and technologies that show promise for reducing environmental and occupational exposures simultaneously, rather than transferring risks from one population to the other. He has published more than 40 articles on risk assessment and management in the scientific, economic, legal, and popular literature, and is co-editor of the book Worst Things First? The Debate over Risk-Based National Environmental Priorities (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1994). He is the principal investigator on a National Science Foundation grant to study the advantages of quantifying uncertainty and person-to-person variation in the costs of environmental regulatory programs. At Penn Law, Finkel teaches courses on risk regulation. More Hide
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