Prof. Jonathan Wiener

wienerjWilliam R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law, Duke Law School;
Professor of Environmental Policy; Professor of Public Policy, Duke University
 
 


 
Short biography
Jonathan B. Wiener is the Perkins Professor of Law, and Professor of Public Policy and Environmental Policy, at Duke University.  He directs the JD-LLM Program in International & Comparative Law at Duke Law School.  He is also a University Fellow of Resources for the Future (RFF).  He was co-chair of the World Congress on Risk held in Sydney in 2012, after serving as President of the international Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) in 2008.  He is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group III, in the chapter on “International Cooperation,” for its 5th Assessment Report to be published in 2014 (he also contributed to the IPCC’s 1st and 2nd Assessment Reports).  His publications include the books Risk vs. Risk:  Tradeoffs in Protecting Health and Environment (Harvard Univ. Press 1995), Reconstructing Climate Policy (AEI Press 2003), and The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the US and Europe (RFF Press/Routledge 2011), as well as numerous articles on these topics.  He has been a visiting professor at Harvard, the University of Chicago, Univ. Paris-Dauphine, Sciences Po, and EHESS in Paris.  In 2003 he received the SRA’s Chauncey Starr Young Risk Analyst Award for achievements in the field by age 40.  From 1989 until he came to Duke in 1994, he served at the US Department of Justice and then at the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), where he helped negotiate the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) and helped draft Executive Order 12,866 on regulatory review.  He was a law clerk to federal judges Stephen G. Breyer (1988-89) and Jack B. Weinstein (1987-88).  He received his J.D. (1987) and A.B. (1984, economics) from Harvard University.
 
Additional material
Interview with Prof. Wiener on the occasion of IRGC’s 10 year anniversary [pdf]

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