Cary Coglianese is Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and professor of political science, deputy dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and director of the Penn Program on Regulation. 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 disputes, negotiation, and business-government relations in regulatory policy making. He created and maintains the website e-rulemaking.org. This site, dedicated to technological and institutional issues related to e-rulemaking, makes research papers, policy documents, and conference materials accessible to those interested in the use of information technology in the regulatory process. He is also a founding editor of the international, peer-reviewed journal Regulation & Governance.
Coglianese holds a JD, a PhD in political science and a master's in public policy all from the University of Michigan. His undergraduate degree is from the College of Idaho.
Prior to joining Penn Law, Coglianese served on the faculty at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government (1994-2006) where he was chair of the school's Regulatory Policy Program and director of its Politics Research Group. He is the founder and co-chair of the Law and Society Association's international collaborative research network on regulatory governance, a Council member of the American Bar Association's Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, Vice Chair of the Innovation, Management Systems, and Trading Committee of the American Bar Association's section on Environment, Energy, and Resources and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He has taught as a visiting professor at the Stanford and Vanderbilt law schools.