Penn Law’s Cary Coglianese, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, and director of the Penn Program on Regulation, has been named one of the 50 lawyers, judges and law professors recently elected to the American Law Institute (ALI). He also serves as the faculty advisor to the Program on Regulation’s widely read daily publication, The Regulatory Review. The ALI is an independent organization that produces scholarly work to clarify, modernize and improve the law. The ALI publishes model and uniform codes, principles of law and Restatements of Law that are used extensively by courts, legislatures and legal educators.

Dr. Coglianese also created, leads and teaches in a four-day executive education program offered at Penn Law on Regulatory Analysis and Decision-Making. He has played a key leadership role in various institutional innovations at the law school, such as in the establishment of the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice and the Leo Model Foundation Government Service and Public Affairs Initiative. He has provided vision and ongoing support for numerous innovative programs, including the establishment of The Regulatory Review, the founding of the Journal of Law and Public Affairs and the annual “notice and comment” pro bono project undertaken by students involved in the Environmental Law Project.

Dr. Coglianese currently serves as the chair of the Regulatory Policy Committee of the American Bar Association’s Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section and as the chair of the Rulemaking Committee for the Administrative Conference of the United States. He also serves at present on a National Academy of Sciences committee charged with reviewing and making recommendations for improving safety and environmental inspections of offshore oil and gas operations in the United States.

Penn Law adjunct professor of law Sarah Hammer (L’11, WG’99) was also elected to the ALI. Ms. Hammer is the managing director of the Stevens Center for Innovation in Finance and senior director of the Harris Alternative Investments Program at the Wharton School.