The Regulatory Review

What The Regulatory Review does

The Regulatory Review is an online academic publication founded in 2009 that provides daily news, analysis, and opinion on regulatory and administrative law developments. It is affiliated with the Penn Program on Regulation and housed at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where it is primarily staffed by law students under the editorial direction of Editor-in-Chief Sean Lonergan and Faculty Advisor Cary Coglianese. Content is organized across nine policy verticals — Business, Education, Environment, Health, Infrastructure, International, Process, Rights, and Technology — and produced in multiple formats including essays, opinion pieces, themed series, Saturday Seminar, Sunday Spotlight, and Week in Review recaps. Contributors include scholars, judges, attorneys, and regulatory practitioners from across the United States and, increasingly, international jurisdictions.

The underlying technology is a content management system–backed online publishing platform accessible at theregreview.org. The platform supports topic-based navigation, an archived content library spanning from 2009 to the present, and distribution via RSS, email newsletter, and five social channels (X, Facebook, LinkedIn, Bluesky, Threads). There is no mobile application, no public API, and no proprietary technology features documented. The technology stack is functional rather than differentiated, serving primarily as a delivery mechanism for human-authored scholarship.

The business model is non-commercial. The publication generates no revenue from readers, advertisers, or subscribers; all content is distributed free of charge with no paywalls, premium tiers, or paid products. Operating costs are underwritten by institutional funding from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School through the Penn Program on Regulation. The go-to-market motion is community-led, relying on the prestige of the institutional affiliation and the contributions of external subject-matter experts to attract readership among academic scholars, legal professionals, and policy makers. The publication is not a venture-backable or acquirable entity; it operates as a mission-driven academic resource rather than a commercial media business.

Name

The Regulatory Review

Legal name

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (Penn Program on Regulation)

Website

https://theregreview.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Regulatory Review is a free, student-staffed online academic publication founded in 2009 and affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, publishing daily regulatory analysis for scholars, judges, attorneys, and policy makers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Philadelphia

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Institutional Funding: Funded by the Penn Program on Regulation and housed at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Operates as an academic publication without commercial revenue model.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

The Regulatory Review is a free online academic publication that publishes regulatory news, analysis, opinion, and scholarly commentary on administrative law and government regulation across topics including Business, Education, Environment, Health, Infrastructure, International, Process, Rights, and Technology. Staffed by University of Pennsylvania Law School students and affiliated with the Penn Program on Regulation, it publishes new content every weekday and maintains a continuously growing archive since 2009.

Product overview

The Regulatory Review is an online publication offering regulatory news, analysis, and opinion on various policy topics including Business, Education, Environment, Health, Infrastructure, International, Process, Rights, and Technology. The publication features multiple content formats including essays, opinion pieces, analysis, Saturday Seminar articles, Sunday Spotlight articles, Week in Review recaps, and themed Series of essays. Staffed by students from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, it publishes content daily throughout the year and is affiliated with the Penn Program on Regulation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• The Regulatory Review In Depth: A special series or section of the publication featuring in-depth regulatory analysis.
• Saturday Seminar
• Week in Review
• Sunday Spotlight

Products and services

• The Regulatory Review Free online academic publication offering daily regulatory news, analysis, opinion pieces, and scholarly commentary on administrative law and government regulation across nine topic areas, for scholars, legal professionals, policy makers, and law students.

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Penn Program on RegulationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Regulatory Review is affiliated with and sponsored by the Penn Program on Regulation, an institute at the University of Pennsylvania. The partnership provides academic institutional backing, editorial oversight through Faculty Advisor Cary Coglianese, and student staffing from Penn Law.
• University of Pennsylvania Carey Law SchoolcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe publication is housed at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, providing institutional affiliation and access to legal scholarship and academic resources.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Columbia Law Review: Prestigious student-edited law journal at Columbia Law School publishing on legal topics including administrative and regulatory law. Comparable as a law school-affiliated scholarly publication with student staffing model and institutional backing.
• Law360: Commercial legal news service providing daily coverage of regulatory and legal developments across practice areas. Comparable as a daily regulatory news source, though operating with a paid subscription model and professional journalist staff rather than academic contributors.
• Harvard Law Review: Premier law school-affiliated legal publication with broad coverage of legal topics including regulatory issues. Comparable as a student-staffed law review publication with institutional credibility, though focused on general legal scholarship rather than regulatory specialization.
• Yale Law Journal: Leading student-edited law journal at Yale Law School publishing legal scholarship. Comparable as a law school-affiliated legal publication with similar student-staffed editorial model, though broader in scope than regulatory specialization.
• Brookings Institution Regulatory Commentary: Think tank publishing policy analysis including regulatory issues across multiple sectors. Comparable as a source of expert regulatory commentary for policy makers and scholars, though operating across broader policy domains beyond regulation.

Direct peers

• Administrative Law Review: Published by the American Bar Association's Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. A leading academic journal covering administrative law and regulatory policy, sharing The Regulatory Review's scholarly regulatory focus with a different institutional sponsor.
• Yale Journal on Regulation: Student-edited law journal at Yale Law School focused on regulatory policy analysis. Most directly comparable to The Regulatory Review as a law school-affiliated publication dedicated to regulatory scholarship, though published on a less frequent schedule.
• Regulation & Governance: Peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley covering regulatory theory and practice. Comparable as a scholarly outlet for regulatory analysis, though operating on a traditional academic journal cadence rather than daily online publishing.
• Regulation (Cato Institute): Quarterly print and online publication from the Cato Institute focused on regulatory policy analysis. Comparable as a dedicated regulatory commentary publication with regular publication cadence, though driven by a free-market think tank perspective rather than academic scholarship.

Emerging players

• Administrative Conference of the United States: Independent federal agency that recommends improvements to administrative procedure and publishes regulatory recommendations. Comparable as a regulatory analysis entity frequently cited and featured in The Regulatory Review's content, particularly in their "Advancing Best Practices in Federal Administration" series.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/theregreview
• Facebookfacebook.com/theregulatoryreview
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/theregreview

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

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