Jonathan B. Wiener
Forthcoming
- Reviewing Retrospective Regulatory Review, Report of the Duke Project (Bass Connections) (with others)
Works in Progress
- Adaptive Regulation and Instrument Choice (January 01, 2018) (with Lori S. Bennear)
Books
- Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents, and Financial Crises (Cambridge University Press, 2017) (editor with Edward Balleisen, Lori Bennear & Kim Krawiec)
- The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe (RFF Press/Earthscan/Routledge, 2011) | Publisher's Website |
(editor with others)
- New Perspectives on Risk Analysis and Crisis Response (Atlantis Press, 2009) (Beijing, 19-21 October 2009)
(editor with others)
- Reconstructing Climate Policy: Beyond Kyoto (American Enterprise Institute Press, 2003) (with Richard B. Stewart)
- Regulatory Improvement Legislation: Judicial Review of Provisions Regarding Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis (Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, June, 1999) (with others)
- Legal Issues Presented by a Pilot International Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Trading System (1996) (with others)
- Joint Implementation and Transaction Costs Under the Climate Change Convention (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Environment Directorate, April, 1996) (with Daniel J. Dudek)
- Risk vs. Risk: Tradeoffs in Protecting Health and the Environment (Harvard University Press, 1995) | Publisher's Website | (Japanese translation: Showado Press, 1999)
(editor with John D. Graham)
- A Comprehensive Approach to Addressing Potential Climate Change (U.S. Interagency Taskforce on the Comprehensive Approach, 1991) (with others)
- Harvard Law Review Centennial Album (1987) (editor)
Articles and Essays
- Precautionary Principle, in Principles of Environmental Law 174-185 (Ludwig Krämer & Emanuela Orlando, eds., 2018)
- Transatlantic Patterns of Risk Regulation: Implications for International Trade and Cooperation (International Risk Governance Council (IRGC), April 2017) (with Arthur Petersen, John Graham, Ken Oye, Ortwin Renn & Christina Benighaus)
- Risk Regulation and Future Learning, European Journal of Risk Regulation 4-9 (March 2017)
- On Morals, Markets, and Climate Change: Exploring Pope Francis’ Challenge, 80 Law & Contemporary Problems 135-162 (No. 1 2017) (with others)
- Comparing Regulatory Oversight Bodies in the US and EU: The US Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and the EU Regulatory Scrutiny Board, in Comparative Administrative Law 333-351 (Susan Rose-Ackerman, Peter Lindseth & Blake Emerson eds., 2017) (with Alberto Alemanno)
- Conclusions--– Recalibrating Risk: Crises, Learning, and Regulatory Change, in Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents, and Financial Crises 435-482 (Edward Balleisen, Lori Bennear, Kim Krawiec & Jonathan Wiener eds., 2017) (with others)
- Introduction, in Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents and Financial Crises (Edward Balleisen, Lori Bennear, Kim Krawiec & Jonathan Wiener eds., 2017) (with others)
- Climate Policy in the New US Administration, 2016 Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment 45-61
- Environmental Regulation Going Retro: Learning Foresight from Hindsight, 32 Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law 1-73 (2016) Environmental Distinguished Lecture
(with Daniel L. Ribeiro)
- Impact Assessment: Diffusion and Integration, in Comparative Law and Regulation 159-189 (Francesca Bignami & David Zaring eds., 2016) (with Daniel Lima Ribeiro)
- Precaution and Climate Change, in Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law 163-184 (Cinnamon P. Carlarne et al. eds., 2016)
- The Tragedy of the Uncommons: On the Politics of Apocalypse, 75 Global Policy 67-80 (Supplement S1 2016)
- The Value of Information in Decision-Analytic Modeling for Malaria Vector Control in East Africa, Risk Analysis (2016) (with others)
- Towards a New International Law of the Atmosphere?, 7 Göttingen Journal of International Law 195-223 (2016) (with Peter H. Sand)
- Eco-Environmental Risk Management, Special Policy Study Report, China Council for International Cooperation on Environment & Development (CCICED) (November, 2015) (with others)
- New Approaches to International Regulatory Cooperation: The Challenge of TTIP, TPP and Mega-Regional Trade Agreements, 78 Law & Contemporary Problems 1-29 (2015) (with others), reprinted in Global Governance (Axel Marx and Jan Wouters, eds.) 2018.
- The Future of International Regulatory Cooperation: TTIP as a Learning Process Towards a Global Policy Laboratory, 78 Law & Contemporary Problems 103-136 (2015) (with Alberto Alemanno)
- Towards an Effective System of Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification, in Towards a Workable and Effective Climate Regime (Scott Barrett, Carlo Carraro, & Jaime de Melo eds. , 2015)
- International Cooperation: Agreements and Institutions, in Climate Change 2014: Mitigation (Ottmar Edenhofer et al., eds., 2014) (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 5th Assessment Report (AR5), Working Group III) | Publisher's website |
(with others)
- Intellectual Property and Alternatives: Strategies for Green Innovation, in Intellectual Property Rights: Legal and Economic Challenges for Development 356-391 (Mario Cimoli et al. eds., 2014) (with others)
- Responding to Agency Avoidance of OIRA, 37 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 447-521 (2014) (with Nina Mendelson)
- Using and Improving the Social Cost of Carbon, 346 Science 1189-1190 (5 December 2014) (with others)
- Better Ways to Study Regulatory Elephants, European Journal of Risk Regulation 311-319 (2013)
- The Diffusion of Regulatory Oversight, in Globalization of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy 123-141 (Michael A. Livermore & Richard L. Revesz eds., 2013)
- The Politics of Precaution, and the Reality, 7 Regulation and Governance 258-265 (2013)
- Book Review, 15 Journal of Risk Research 448-451 (2012) (reviewing Uncertain Risks Regulated (Michelle Everson & Ellen Vos eds., 2009) and Joakim Zander, The Application of the Precautionary Principle in Practice (2010))
- The Rhetoric of Precaution, in The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe (Jonathan B. Wiener, Michael D. Rogers, James K. Hammitt & Peter H. Sand eds, 2011)
- Beef, Hormones and Mad Cows, in The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe (Jonathan B. Wiener, Michael D. Rogers, James K. Hammitt & Peter H. Sand eds, 2011) (with others)
- Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction, in The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe (Jonathan B. Wiener, Michael D. Rogers, James K. Hammitt & Peter H. Sand eds, 2011) (with Jessica Stern)
- A Quantitative Comparison of Relative Precaution in the United States and Europe, 1970-2004, in The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe (Jonathan B. Wiener, Michael D. Rogers, James K. Hammitt & Peter H. Sand eds., 2011) (with others)
- The Real Pattern of Precaution, in The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe (Jonathan B. Wiener, Michael D. Rogers, James K. Hammitt & Peter H. Sand eds, 2011)
- Book Review, 30 Health Affairs 796-797 (2011) (reviewing George J. Annas, Worst Case Bioethics: Death, Disaster and Public Health (2010))
4/1/2011
- What Begat Property?, 43 History of Political Economy 353-360 (2011)
- Book Review, 29 Journal of Policy Analysis & Management 649-653 (2010) (reviewing Charles Weiss & William B. Bonvillian, Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution (MIT Press, 2009))
- Risk Regulation and Governance Institutions, in Risk and Regulatory Policy: Improving the Governance of Risk (2010)
- Response to Daniel Abebe and Jonathan Masur on climate change and the 'Two Chinas', 2010
- Comparing Regulatory Oversight Bodies Across the Atlantic: The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the US and the Impact Assessment Board in the EU in Comparative Administrative Law 309-335 (Susan Rose-Ackerman & Peter Lindseth eds., 1st ed, 2010) (with Alberto Alemanno)
- Mechanism Choice, in Research Handbook on Public Choice and Public Law 363-396 (Daniel A. Farber & Anne Joseph O'Connell eds, 2010) (with Barak D. Richman)
- Theorizing and Generalizing About Risk Assessment and Regulation through Nested Analysis of Representative Cases, 31 Law & Policy 236-269 (2009) (with others)
- Society for Risk Analysis Committee of Past Presidents' Recommendations to OMB on Regulatory Review, 2009 (chair of committee)
- Contributions, in Regards Croiss sur l'Internationalisation du Droit : France - Etats-Unis, 2009 Observations sur la conception conomique des politiques climatiques 177-79 (a project of the "Rseau ID franco-amricain" under the direction of Mireille Delmas-Marty & Stephen Breyer)
- Engaging China on Climate Change, 171 Resources for the Future 29-33 (Winter/Spring 2009)
- Property and Prices to Protect the Planet, 19 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 515-534 (2009)
- Using Decision Analysis to Improve Malaria Control Policy Making, 92 Health Policy 133-140 (2009) (with others)
- Intellectual Property and Alternatives: Strategies for Green Innovation, 2008 (Chatham House Energy, Environment and Development Programme Paper No. 08/03, December, 2008)
(with others)
- Issues in the Comparison of Regulatory Oversight Bodies, 2008
- Best Cass Scenario, 43 Tulsa Law Review 933-945 (2008)
- Climate Change Policy, and Policy Change in China, 55 UCLA Law Review 1805-1826 (2008)
- Empirical Evidence for Risk-Risk Tradeoffs: A Rejoinder to Hansen and Tickner, 11 Journal of Risk Research 485-490 (2008) (further reply to Hansen & Tickner)
(with John D. Graham)
- President's Message, Risk Newsletter 2-3 (2008) First Quarter 2-3 (January 2008), Second Quarter 2 (May 2008), Third Quarter 2 (August 2008), Fourth Quarter 2,8 (November 2008)
- Radiative Forcing: Climate Policy to Break the Logjam in Environmental Law, 17 NYU Environmental Law Journal 210-255 (2008)
- The Precautionary Principle and Risk-Risk Tradeoffs: A Comment, 11 Journal of Risk Research 465-474 (2008) (reply to Hansen, Krauss & Tickner)
(with John D. Graham)
- Incentives and Meta-Architectures: Comments on Jeffrey Frankel, in Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World 67-80 (Robert N. Stavins & Joseph E. Aldy eds., 2007)
- Precaution, in Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law 597-612 (Daniel Bodansky, Jutta Brunnee & Ellen Hey eds, 2007)
- Precaution Against Terrorism, 9 Journal of Risk Research 393-447 (2007) (revised in Managing Strategic Surprise: Lessons from Risk Management and Risk Assessment ch. 5 (Paul Bracken, David Gordon & Ian Bremmer eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008))
(with Jessica Stern)
- Think Globally, Act Globally: The Limits of Local Climate Policies, 155 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1961-1979 (2007)
- Aprs 2012" dans le Rapport de la Mission sur l'Effet de Serre de l'Assemble Nationale de la France, Rapport No. 475-479 (2006)
- Risk and Regulatory Governance (2006)
- 'Adverse Effects' And Similar Terms In U.S. Law (2006) (with others)
- A Pattern of Parity and Particularity, in Environmental Forum 52 (2006)
- Better Regulation in Europe, 59 Current Legal Problems 447-518 (2006) (reprinted in Taking Stock of Environmental Assessment: Law, Policy and Practice 65 (Jane Holder & Donald McGillivray eds., 2007))
- Precautionary Regulation in Europe and the United States: A Quantitative Comparison, 25 Risk Analysis 1215-1228 (2005) (with others)
- Book Review, 24 Journal of Policy Analysis & Management 885-889 (2005) (reviewing Richard Posner, Catastrophe: Risk and Response (2004), and Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005))
- Foreword: Global Governance as Administration - National and Transnational Approaches to Global Administrative Law, 68 Law and Contemporary Problems 1-13 (Summer/Autumn 2005) (with others)
- Stopping the Next Flu Pandemic: The Vaccine Shell Game (2004) (with Laura J. Kornish)
- Editorial, Disconnects in Evaluating the Relative Effectiveness of Conservation Strategies, 18 Conservation Biology 597-599 (2004) (with others)
- Hormesis, Hotspots and Emissions Trading, 12 Biological Effects of Low Level Exposures (BELLE) 20-31 (2004) (reprinted in 23 Human and Experimental Toxicology 289-301 (June 2004))
- Convergence, Divergence, and Complexity in US and European Risk Regulation, in Green Giants: Environmental Policies of the United States and the European Union 73-109 (Norman Vig & Michael Faure eds., 2004)
- Making Markets for Global Forests Conservation, in Painting the White House Green: Environmental Economics in the White House 119-140 (Jason Shogren & Randall Lutter eds., 2004)
- The Regulation of Technology and the Technology of Regulation, 26 Technology in Society 483-500 (2004)
- Practical Climate Change Policy, 20 Issues in Science and Technology 71-78 (Winter 2003) (with Richard B. Stewart)
- Whose Precaution After All ? A Comment on the Comparison and Evolution of Risk Regulatory Systems, 13 Duke Journal of International & Comparative Law 207-62 (2003)
- Comparing Precaution in the United States and Europe, 5 Journal of Risk Research 317 (2002) (with Michael D. Rogers)
- Designing Global Climate Regulation, in Climate Change Policy: A Survey ( (Stephen Schneider, Armin Rosencranz & John-O Niles eds, 2002)
- Precaution in a Multi-Risk World, in Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: Theory and Practice 1509 (Dennis D. Paustenbach ed., 2002)
- Sustainable Governance, in The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decisionmaking (John Martin Gillroy & Joe Bowersox eds., 2002)
- Hormesis and the Radical Moderation of Law, 9 Human & Experimental Toxicology (2001) (reprinted in 9 Biological Effects of Low Level Exposures (BELLE))
- Policy Design for International Greenhouse Gas Control, in Climate Change Economics and Policy: An RFF Anthology 205-215 (Michael A. Toman, ed., 2001)
- Reconstructing Climate Policy: The Paths Ahead 1-23 (2001) (with Richard B. Stewart)
- Regulatory Improvement Legislation: Risk Assessment, Cost-Benefit Analysis, and Judicial Review, 11 Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 89 (2001) (with others)
- Something Borrowed for Something Blue: Legal Transplants and the Evolution of Global Environmental Law, 27 Ecology Law Quarterly 1295 (2001)
- Principled Standard Setting Requires Consideration of More than Science, 2000 AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies-2 (AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, Brief 00-02) Brief Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondents, Browner v. American Trucking Associations, Inc., No. 99-1257, (U.S. September 11, 2000)(with 20 law professors, economists, and scientists)
- Toward Sustainable Governance, Policy Matters-8 (2000)
- Global Environmental Regulation: Instrument Choice in Legal Context, 108 Yale Law Journal 677 (1999)
- On the Political Economy of Global Environmental Regulation, 87 Georgetown Law Journal 749 (1999)
- Foreword: The Puzzle of Environmental Politics, 9 Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 1 (1998) (with Frank B. Cross)
- Managing the Iatrogenic Risks of Risk Management, 9 Risk: Health, Safety & Env. 39 (1998)
- Designing Global Climate Policy: Efficient Markets vs. Political Markets (1997)
- Risk in the Republic, 8 Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 1 (1997)
- Beyond the Balance of Nature, 7 Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 1 (1996)
- Law and the New Ecology: Evolution, Categories and Consequences, 22 Ecology Law Quarterly 325 (1996) (reprinted in 27 Land Use & Environmental Law Review (1996))
- Book Review, 4 Review of European Community & International Environmental Law 207 (1995) (reviewingJoint Implementation to Curb Climate Change: Legal and Economic Aspects (O. Kuik, P. Peters & N. Schrijver eds., 1994))
- Reforming Risk Regulation: Achieving More Protection at Less Cost, Report of the Harvard Group on Risk Management Reform, Hum. & Eco. Risk Assessment (1995) (with others)
- Forum: Reforming Superfund, Issues in Science & Technology 8 (1994)
- Solving the Precautionary Paradox: Policy Approaches to Improve Measurement of Greenhouse Gas Sources and Sinks, in Non-Co2 Greenhouse Gases (J. Van Ham et al. eds.,, 1994)
- Technology-Based Approaches versus Market-Based Approaches, in Greening International Law (P. Sands, ed., 1993) (with others)
- Environmental Policy for Eastern Europe: Technology-Based versus Market-Based Approaches, 17 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 1 (1992) (with others)
- The Climate Change Convention, in The Role of Law in the (1992)
- The Comprehensive Approach to Global Climate Policy: Issues of Design and Practicality, 9 Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law 83 (1992) (with Richard B. Stewart)
- The Comprehensive Approach, Greenhouse Taxes and Informal Emission Trading, in Climate Change: Designing a Practical Tax System (1992)
- A Comprehensive Approach to Climate Change, American Enterprise 74 (1990) (with Richard B. Stewart)
- Of Sailing ships and Seeking Facts: Brief Reflections on Magistrates and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 62 St. John's Law Review 429 (1987) (with Jack B. Weinstein)
- Developments in the Law of Toxic Waste Litigation: Bankruptcy and Insurance Issues , 99 Harvard Law Review 1573-1601 (1986)
Issues Edited
- New Approaches to International Regulatory Cooperation, 78 Law & Contemporary Problems (No. 4 2015) (special editor, with Richard Stewart, Neysun Mahboubi & Reeve Bull)
- The Emergence of Global Administrative Law, 68 Law & Contemporary Problems (Summer/Autumn 2005) (with others)
- Essays Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Harvard Law Review, 100 Harvard Law Review (No. 4, 1987)
Newspaper Articles and Commentary
- Genetically Modified Salmon and Full Impact Assessment, 330 Science (November 19, 2010) (with others)
- Want a President Who Weighs the Risks Well, News & Observer (October 30, 2009, at 11A)
- Madison and Change Climate Policy, Science (January 20, 2006) (letters)
(with others)
- Save the Kyoto Protocol, 22 Issues in Science & Technology (January 01, 2006, at 9) (Letter Responding to Ruth Greenspan Bell)
(Spring 2006)
(with others)