On Wednesday, March 11, the FSU Environmental, Energy & Land Use Law Program welcomed Professor Cary Coglianese as our Spring 2020 Distinguished Lecturer, presenting “The Scapegoating of Environmental Regulation.” Coglianese is the Edward B. Shils professor of law and founding director of the Program on Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania.

Coglianese’s lecture shed light on the phenomenon of regulatory scapegoating. Coglianese discussed why environmental regulation receives disproportionate rhetorical blame for perceived regulatory excesses despite contrary empirical evidence, and the potential threat that persistent regulatory scapegoating can pose to the rule of law. His lecture was followed by a reception in the Rotunda.

Coglianese specializes in the study of administrative law and regulatory processes. Chair of the Government Service and Public Affairs Initiative at Penn Law, he is also a faculty affiliate of the Fels Institute of Government, the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and the Wharton Risk Center. He serves as faculty director for Penn Law’s executive education program on regulatory analysis and teaches regularly at the Wharton School. He is also a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States. Prior to joining Penn Law, he founded and chaired the Regulatory Policy Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Coglianese teaches administrative law, environmental law, regulatory law and policy, and policy analysis. The lecture was live-streamed and a recording is available online.

Published on March 20, 2020