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
Eric A. Feldman
Eric Feldman’s expertise is in Japanese law, comparative public health law, and law and society. His books and articles explore the comparative dimensions of rights, dispute resolution, and legal culture, often in the context of urgent policy issues including the regulation of smoking, HIV/AIDS, and other aspects of the health care system. Feldman has twice been a Fulbright Scholar in Japan, and has also been a Visiting Professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and at the University of Trento in Italy, as well as a Visiting Scholar at Waseda University’s Graduate School of Law in Tokyo. He has received grants and fellowships from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the American Bar Association, the National Science Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council, among others. Prior to joining the Penn Law faculty, he spent five years as the Associate Director of the Institute for Law and Society at New York University. He is the author of The Ritual of Rights in Japan: Law, Society, and Health Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2000), the co-editor of Blood Feuds: AIDS, Blood, and the Politics of Medical Disaster (Oxford University Press, 1999) and Unfiltered: Conflicts over Tobacco Policy and Public Health (Harvard University Press, 2004), and has published academic articles in edited volumes and journals including the California Law Review, Law in Japan, American Journal of Comparative Law, Los Angeles Times, Social and Legal Studies, Hastings Center Report, Lancet, Law and Society Review, and the Michigan Journal of International Law. More Hide
Adjuncts & Lecturers/Fellows
Adam Finkel
Adam Finkel joins the Penn Program on Regulation as its first executive director and as 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. He comes to Penn Law from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) School of Public Health, where he is a Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health. For the past three years, he has also been 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.”
Adam 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 was 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 new National Science Foundation grant to study the advantages of quantifying uncertainty and person-to-person variation in the costs of environmental regulatory programs. In the spring of 2008, he will be teaching a course on risk regulation at Penn Law. 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