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Jonathan B. Wiener, William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law, Professor of Environmental Policy, and Professor of Public Policy Studies

Contact Info:

Office Location:	3016 Law School
Office Phone:	(919) 613-7054
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• LAW 557.01, SPACE LAW / LAWS OF MARS Synopsis

  Law Bldg 4055, W 02:00 PM-03:50 PM

• LAW 590.01, RISK REGULATION U.S., EUR, BEY Synopsis

  Law Bldg 3037, Tu 02:00 PM-03:50 PM

  (also cross-listed as ENVIRON 733.01, PUBPOL 891.01)

Education:

J.D.	Harvard University	1987
AB Economics	Harvard College	1984

Specialties:

Law
environmental policy
decision analysis
environmental economics
global climate change

Research Interests:

Jonathan B. Wiener is William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law at Duke Law School, Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment & Earth Sciences, and Professor of Public Policy Studies and the Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University. He is also the Faculty Director of the Duke Center for Environmental Solutions. He has written widely on U.S. and international environmental law and risk regulation, including numerous articles and the books Reconstructing Climate Policy (AEI Press 2003, with Richard B. Stewart) and Risk vs. Risk (Harvard University Press 1995, with John D. Graham). In 1999 he was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. In 2002 he was named a University Fellow of Resources for the Future (RFF), the environmental economics think tank. In 2003 he received the Chauncey Starr Young Risk Analyst Award from the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) for the most exceptional contributions to the field of risk analysis by a scholar aged 40 or under. Before coming to Duke, he worked on U.S. and international environmental policy at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and at the United States Department of Justice, serving in both the first Bush and Clinton administrations. He attended the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. Professor Wiener clerked for Judge (now U.S. Supreme Court Justice) Stephen G. Breyer on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston in 1988-89, and for Chief Judge Jack B. Weinstein on the U.S. District Court in New York in 1987-88. He received his A.B. in economics (1984) and his J.D. (1987) from Harvard University, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and helped coach the 1985 intercollegiate debate champions. Jonathan Wiener has also been committed to community service. He helped organize the Americorps National Service program in 1993, helped start the annual City Year servathon in Boston in 1989 and DC Cares servathon in Washington DC in 1991, served on the North Carolina State Commission on National and Community Service from 1994-98, and founded the "Dedicated to Durham" community service day held twice each year at Duke Law School since 1995.

Keywords:

International • U.S. • Public Policy • Environment • Law

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Wiener, JB; Bennear, LS; Karthik, R, Regulatory Learning Through Agency Action Under the Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, Project on Retrospective Regulatory Analysis (2024)
2. Wiener, JB; Felgenhauer, T, The Evolving International Climate Change Regime: Mitigation, Adaptation, Reflection, Texas A&M Law Review (2024)
3. Wiener, JB; Felgenhauer, T; Bala, G; Borsuk, M; Camilloni, I; Xu, J, Practical Paths to Risk-Risk Analysis of Solar Radiation Modification (2024)
4. Wiener, JB; Grieger, K; Kuzma, J; Felgenhauer, T; Borsuk, M, Improving Risk Governance via Two-Way Policy Learning: A Comparative Analysis of Solar Geoengineering and Gene Drives (2024)
5. Wiener, JB, Modernizing Regulatory Review: Assessing All Important Impacts, Administrative & Regulatory Law News, vol. 48 no. 3 (2023), pp. 11-14