He also created Erulemaking.org, a site dedicated to technological and institutional issues related to e-rulemaking and which makes research papers, policy documents, and conference materials accessible to those interested in the use of information technology in the regulatory process.

Together with John Braithwaite and David Levi-Faur, Coglianese served as a founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal Regulation & Governance.

Prior to joining Penn Law, Coglianese served on the faculty at the John F. Kennedy School of Government (1994-2006) where he was the founding chair of the school's Regulatory Policy Program and director of its Politics Research Group.

He founded the Law and Society Association's international collaborative research network on regulatory governance, served as a Council member of the American Bar Association's Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, and served as Vice Chair of the Innovation, Management Systems, and Trading Committee of the American Bar Association's section on Environment, Energy, and Resources.

Coglianese holds a JD, a PhD in political science and a master's in public policy all from the University of Michigan.