Associate Faculty Matthew D. Adler, Leon Meltzer Professor of Law
Howard F. Chang, Earle Hepburn Professor of Law
Professor Adler is a graduate of Yale College, St. Antony’s College of Oxford University, and the Yale Law School. Prior to teaching at Penn, he worked as a law clerk for Judge Harry Edwards, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, U.S. Supreme Court, and practiced law at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City. At the Penn Law School, Professor Adler teaches administrative law, constitutional law, and regulation. His current research focuses on policy analysis and on risk regulation.
Professor Chang received a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992, a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1987, a Master in Public Affairs from Princeton University in 1985, and an A.B. from Harvard College in 1982. Prior to joining the Penn faculty in 1999, he was a Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Law School, where he began teaching in 1992. He was a Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford Law School in 1998, at Harvard Law School and at the New York University School of Law in 2001, at the University of Michigan Law School in 2002, and at the University of Chicago Law School in 2007, and a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center from 1996 to 1997. He served as a law clerk for the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1988 to1989. He served on the Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association from 2004 to 2007. He has written on a wide variety of subjects including environmental protection, international trade, immigration, intellectual property, and the economics of litigation and settlement.
Franklin Allen, Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Professor of Economics, The Wharton School Franklin Allen is the Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Professor of Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has been on the faculty since 1980. He is currently Co-Director of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center. He was formerly Vice Dean and Director of Wharton Doctoral Programs and Executive Editor of the Review of Financial Studies, one of the leading academic finance journals. He is a past President of the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, the Society of Financial Studies, and the Financial Intermediation Research Society. He received his doctorate from Oxford University. Dr. Allen’s main areas of interest are corporate finance, asset pricing, comparative financial systems, and financial crises. He is a co-author with Richard Brealey and Stewart Myers of the eighth and ninth editions of the textbook Principles of Corporate Finance. Aditi Bagchi, Assistant Professor of Law Professor Bagchi received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2003 and a M.Sc. in economic and social history from Oxford University in 2000. She clerked for United States Court of Appeals Judge Julio Fuentes and practiced law with Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York. She joined the Penn Law faculty in 2006 and currently teaches contracts and labor law. Her areas of research include normative theories of private law and comparative political economy.
Cary Coglianese, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science Cary Coglianese is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the Edward B. Shils Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, as well as Professor of Political Science and the director of the Penn Program on Regulation. Coglianese is the founder of the Law & Society Association’s international collaborative research network on regulatory governance, a council member of the American Bar Association’s section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, and a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He is also a founder of the peerreviewed journal Regulation & Governance, for which he now serves on the editorial board. Coglianese received his J.D., M.P.P., and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan, and for twelve years served on the faculty of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He has also been a visiting professor of law at Stanford University and Vanderbilt University and an affiliated scholar at the Harvard Law School.
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