Jonathan B. Wiener
William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Distinguished Professor of Law
Jonathan B. Wiener is the William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law at Duke Law School, Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment, and Professor of Public Policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy, at Duke University. He is the Co-Director of the Duke Center on Risk in the Science & Society Initiative.
He served as President of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) in 2008, and he co-chaired the SRA's World Congress on Risk in Sydney Australia in 2012. In 2003 he received SRA’s Chauncey Starr Young Risk Analyst Award, and in 2014 he received SRA’s Richard J. Burk Outstanding Service Award. From 2015-19 he co-directed the Rethinking Regulation program at Duke, and from 2007-15 he directed the JD-LLM Program in International and Comparative Law at Duke Law School. From 2000-05 he was the founding Faculty Director of the Duke Center for Environmental Solutions, which was then expanded into the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, for which he served as chair of the faculty advisory committee from 2007-10.
He is a University Fellow of Resources for the Future (RFF); a Public Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS); a board member of the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis (SBCA); and an affiliated faculty member of the environment program at Duke Kunshan University (DKU) and of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis (HCRA). He is a member of advisory committees at the NYU Institute for Policy Integrity, the International Risk Governance Council (IRGC), the Chaire Economie du Climat (CEC), and the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER). He has been a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5th Assessment Report (Working Group III) (2014), and the study team on “Environmental Risk Management” for the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) (2015).
His publications include the books Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents, and Financial Crises (Cambridge University Press, 2017 [paperback 2020], with Ed Balleisen, Lori Bennear, and Kim Krawiec); The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe (RFF/Routledge, 2011, with Michael Rogers, Jim Hammitt, and Peter Sand), Reconstructing Climate Policy (AEI Press 2003, with Richard Stewart) and Risk vs. Risk (Harvard University Press 1995, with John Graham [Chinese translation, 2018]), and more than 100 articles in journals in law, policy, economics, risk and science. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, the University of Chicago Law School, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Université Paris-Dauphine, Sciences Po, and EHESS and CIRED in Paris.
Before coming to Duke, he served at the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), at the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and at the US Department of Justice (DOJ/ENRD), in the first Bush and Clinton administrations. He helped negotiate the Framework Convention on Climate Change, attended the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and helped draft Executive Order 12866 (1993). He also helped organize the Americorps National Service program in 1993, the annual City Year servathon in Boston in 1989, and the D.C. Cares servathon in Washington D.C. 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 at Duke Law School since 1995.
He 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 J.D. (1987) from Harvard University, where he was a research assistant at the NBER, assistant coach of the 1985 college debate champions, and an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Distinguished Professor of Law, Law School, Duke University 2004
- Professor of Law, Law School, Duke University 1999
- Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University 2011
- Professor in the Division of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University 2012
- Faculty Network Member of The Energy Initiative, Nicholas Institute-Energy Initiative, Initiatives 2012
- Associate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society, Duke Science & Society, Initiatives 2015
Contact Information
- Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708
- Duke Law School Room 3192, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708
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wiener@law.duke.edu
(919) 613-7054
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- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- J.D., Harvard University 1987
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Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor of Environmental Policy at Duke Kunshan University, DKU Faculty, Duke Kunshan University 2017 - 2022
- Affiliate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society, Duke Science & Society, Initiatives 2014 - 2015
- Professor of Public Policy Studies, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University 2003 - 2011
- Professor of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University 1999 - 2004
- Associate Professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment, Law School, Duke University 1996 - 1998
- Associate Professor, Law School, Duke University 1997 - 1998
- Associate Professor, Law School, Duke University 1994 - 1996
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Awards & Honors
- Expertise
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Global Scholarship
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Expertise
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Research
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Teaching
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- Research
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Selected Grants
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External Relationships
- Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS)
- Book Harvest
- Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
- George Mason University (GMU)
- Harvard University
- Indiana University
- Institute for Policy Integrity, NYU School of Law
- International Risk Governance Council (IRGC)
- North Carolina State University (NCSU)
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Personal Care Products Council (PCPC)
- Resources for the Future (RFF)
- Society for Benefit Cost Analysis (SBCA)
- Society for Risk Analysis (SRA)
- US National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Universite Paris-Dauphine -- Climate Economics Chair (CEC)
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
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Balleisen, E. J., J. Wiener, K. Krawiec, and L. Bennear, eds. Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents, and Financial Crises. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316492635.Full Text
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Balleisen, E. J., J. Wiener, K. Krawiec, and L. Bennear, eds. Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents, and Financial Crises. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316492635.Full Text
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Wiener, J., M. Rogers, J. Hammitt, and P. Sand. The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe. RFF Press/Earthscan/Routledge, 2011.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., C. Huang, and J. Ni. New Perspectives on Risk Analysis and Crisis Response. Atlantis Press, 2009.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., and R. Stewart. Reconstructing Climate Policy: Beyond Kyoto. American Enterprise Institute Press, 2003.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., F. Anderson, M. Chirba-Martin, E. Elliott, C. Farina, E. Gellhorn, J. Graham, et al. Regulatory Improvement Legislation: Judicial Review of Provisions Regarding Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis. Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, June, 1999.
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Wiener, J., R. Stewart, and P. Sands. Legal Issues Presented by a Pilot International Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Trading System, 1996.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., and D. Dudek. Joint Implementation and Transaction Costs Under the Climate Change Convention. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Environment Directorate, April, 1996.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., and J. Graham. Risk vs. Risk: Tradeoffs in Protecting Health and the Environment. Harvard University Press, 1995.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. A Comprehensive Approach to Addressing Potential Climate Change. U.S. Interagency Taskforce on the Comprehensive Approach, 1991.
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Wiener, J. Harvard Law Review Centennial Album. Harvard Law Review Association, 1987.
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Academic Articles
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Wiener, J., J. Xu, and H. Li. “Comparing Environmental Risk Regulations in China and the United States.” Risk Analysis 42, no. 4 (2022): 730–56.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., L. Bennear, and R. Karthik. “Regulatory Learning Through Agency Implementation of the Evidence-Based Policymaking Act (Accepted).” Project on Retrospective Regulatory Analysis, 2022.
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Wiener, J., T. Felgenhauer, G. Bala, M. Borsuk, M. Brune, I. Camilloni, and J. Xu. “Solar Radiation Modification: A Risk-Risk Analysis,” 2022.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Disregard and Due Regard.” Nyu Environmental Law Journal 29, no. 3 (2021): 437–69.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., J. Aldy, T. Felgenhauer, M. Borsuk, W. Pizer, M. Tavoni, M. Belaia, and A. Ghosh. “Social Science Research to Inform Solar Geoengineering.” Science 374, no. 6569 (2021): 815–18.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., and L. Bennear. “Institutional Roles and Goals for Retrospective Regulatory Analysis.” Journal of Benefit Cost Analysis 12, no. 1 (2021): 466–93.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Learning to Manage the Multirisk World.” Risk Analysis 40 (2020): 2137–43.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., K. Grieger, T. Felgenhauer, O. Renn, and M. Borsuk. “Emerging Risk Governance for Stratospheric Aerosol Injection as a Climate Management Technology.” Environment Systems and Decisions 39, no. 4 (2019): 371–82.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., and L. Bennear. “Adaptive Regulation: A Framework for Policy Learning over Time (In preparation),” 2019.
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Wiener, J. “Risk Regulation and Future Learning.” European Journal of Risk Regulation, 2017, 4–9.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., J. Monast, and B. Murray. “On Morals, Markets, and Climate Change: Exploring Pope Francis’ Challenge.” Law & Contemporary Problems 80 (2017): 135–62.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “The Tragedy of the Uncommons: On the Politics of Apocalypse.” Global Policy 7 (2016): 67–80.
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Wiener, J., D. Kim, R. Kramer, M. Miranda, R. Anderson, C. Mutero, and Z. Brown. “The Value of Information in Decision-Analytic Modeling for Malaria Vector Control in East Africa.” Risk Analysis, 2016.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., and D. Ribeiro. “Environmental Regulation Going Retro: Learning Foresight from Hindsight.” Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law 32 (2016): 1–73.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., and P. Sand. “Towards a New International Law of the Atmosphere?” Göttingen Journal of International Law 7, no. 2 (2016): 195–223.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., R. Stewart, R. Bull, and N. Mahboubi. “New Approaches to International Regulatory Cooperation: The Challenge of TTIP, TPP and Mega-Regional Trade Agreements.” Law & Contemporary Problems 78 (2015): 1–29.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., and A. Alemanno. “The Future of International Regulatory Cooperation: TTIP as a Learning Process Towards a Global Policy Laboratory.” Law & Contemporary Problems 78 (2015): 103–36.Link to Item
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Pizer, W., M. Adler, J. Aldy, D. Anthoff, M. Cropper, K. Gillingham, M. Greenstone, et al. “Using and improving the social cost of carbon.” Science 346, no. 6214 (December 5, 2014): 1189–90. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1259774.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Wiener, J., and N. Mendelson. “Responding to Agency Avoidance of OIRA.” Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 37 (2014): 447–521.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Better Ways to Study Regulatory Elephants.” European Journal of Risk Regulation, 2013, 311–19.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “The Politics of Precaution, and the Reality.” Regulation and Governance 7 (2013): 258–65.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Book Review.” Journal of Risk Research 15 (2012): 448–51.
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Wiener, J. “What Begat Property?” History of Political Economy 43 (2011): 353–60.
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Wiener, J. “Book Review.” Health Affairs 30 (2011): 796–97.
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Smith, M. D., F. Asche, A. G. Guttormsen, and J. B. Wiener. “Genetically Modified Salmon and Full Impact Assessment.” Science 330 (November 2010): 1052–53.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Response to Daniel Abebe and Jonathan Masur on climate change and the 'Two Chinas'” 2010 (2010).Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Book Review.” Journal of Policy Analysis & Management 29 (2010): 649–53.
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Kramer, Randall A., Katherine L. Dickinson, Richard M. Anderson, Vance G. Fowler, Marie Lynn Miranda, Clifford M. Mutero, Kathryn A. Saterson, and Jonathan B. Wiener. “Using decision analysis to improve malaria control policy making.” Health Policy 92, no. 2–3 (October 2009): 133–40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2009.02.011.Full Text Open Access Copy Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Engaging China on Climate Change.” Resources for the Future 171 (2009): 29–33.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Property and Prices to Protect the Planet.” Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 19 (2009): 515–34.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Society for Risk Analysis Committee of Past Presidents' Recommendations to OMB on Regulatory Review” 2009 (2009).Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Contributions, in Regards Croiss sur l'Internationalisation du Droit : France - Etats-Unis.” Observations Sur La Conception Conomique Des Politiques Climatiques 2009 (2009): 177–79.
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Wiener, J., B. Swedlow, D. Kall, Z. Zhou, and J. Hammitt. “Theorizing and Generalizing About Risk Assessment and Regulation through Nested Analysis of Representative Cases.” Law & Policy 31 (2009): 236–69.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Radiative Forcing: Climate Policy to Break the Logjam in Environmental Law.” Nyu Environmental Law Journal 17 (2008): 210–55.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Issues in the Comparison of Regulatory Oversight Bodies” 2008 (2008).Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “President's Message.” Risk Newsletter, 2008, 2–3.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Climate Change Policy, and Policy Change in China.” Ucla Law Review 55 (2008): 1805–26.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., J. Reichman, A. Rai, and R. Newell. “Intellectual Property and Alternatives: Strategies for Green Innovation” 2008 (2008).Link to Item
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Wiener, J., and J. Graham. “Empirical Evidence for Risk-Risk Tradeoffs: A Rejoinder to Hansen and Tickner.” Journal of Risk Research 11 (2008): 485–90.
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Wiener, J., and J. Graham. “The Precautionary Principle and Risk-Risk Tradeoffs: A Comment.” Journal of Risk Research 11 (2008): 465–74.
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Wiener, J. “Best Cass Scenario.” Tulsa Law Review 43 (2008): 933–45.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Think Globally, Act Globally: The Limits of Local Climate Policies.” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 155 (2007): 1961–79.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Risk and Regulatory Governance,” 2006.
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Wiener, J. “Aprs 2012" dans le Rapport de la Mission sur l'Effet de Serre de l'Assemble Nationale de la France.” Rapport No., 2006, 475–79.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Better Regulation in Europe.” Current Legal Problems 59 (2006): 447–518.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “A Pattern of Parity and Particularity,” 2006, 52.
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Wiener, J., M. Marvelli, and K. Stansell. “'Adverse Effects' And Similar Terms In U.S. Law,” 2006.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., R. Stewart, J. Hammitt, and D. Dudek. “Save the Kyoto Protocol.” Issues in Science & Technology 22, no. 3 (2006): 9.
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Wiener, J., R. Stewart, J. Hammitt, and J. -. C. Hourcade. “Madison and Change Climate Policy.” Science 311, no. 5759 (2006).Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Book Review.” Journal of Policy Analysis & Management 24 (2005): 885–89.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., B. Kingsbury, N. Krisch, and R. Stewart. “Foreword: Global Governance as Administration - National and Transnational Approaches to Global Administrative Law.” Law and Contemporary Problems 68 (2005): 1–13.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., J. Hammitt, B. Swendlow, D. Kall, and Z. Zhou. “Precautionary Regulation in Europe and the United States: A Quantitative Comparison.” Risk Analysis 25 (2005): 1215–28.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Hormesis, Hotspots and Emissions Trading.” Biological Effects of Low Level Exposures (Belle) 12 (2004): 20–31.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “The Regulation of Technology and the Technology of Regulation.” Technology in Society 26 (2004): 483–500.
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Wiener, J., and L. Kornish. “Stopping the Next Flu Pandemic: The Vaccine Shell Game,” 2004.Link to Item
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Saterson, K., N. L. Christensen, R. B. Jackson, R. A. Kramer, S. L. Pimm, M. D. Smith, and J. B. Wiener. “Disconnects in Evaluating the Relative Effectiveness of Conservation Strategies.” Conservation Biology 18 (2004): 597–99.
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Wiener, J. “Whose Precaution After All ? A Comment on the Comparison and Evolution of Risk Regulatory Systems.” Duke Journal of International & Comparative Law 13 (2003): 207–62.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., and R. Stewart. “Practical Climate Change Policy.” Issues in Science and Technology 20 (2003): 71–78.Link to Item
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Frush, Donald P. “Introduction: The role of the pediatric radiologist in dose reduction.” Pediatr Radiol 32, no. 4 (April 2002): 285–86. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-002-0682-y.Full Text Link to Item
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Wiener, J., and M. Rogers. “Comparing Precaution in the United States and Europe.” Journal of Risk Research 5 (2002): 317.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Hormesis and the Radical Moderation of Law.” Human & Experimental Toxicology 9 (2001).Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Something Borrowed for Something Blue: Legal Transplants and the Evolution of Global Environmental Law.” Ecology Law Quarterly 27 (2001): 1295.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., F. Anderson, M. Chirba-Martin, E. Elliott, C. Farina, E. Gellhorn, J. Graham, et al. “Regulatory Improvement Legislation: Risk Assessment, Cost-Benefit Analysis, and Judicial Review.” Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 11 (2001): 89.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., and R. Stewart. “Reconstructing Climate Policy: The Paths Ahead,” 2001, 1–23.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Principled Standard Setting Requires Consideration of More than Science.” Aei Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies 2000 (2000).Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Toward Sustainable Governance.” Policy Matters, 2000.
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Wiener, J. “On the Political Economy of Global Environmental Regulation.” Georgetown Law Journal 87 (1999): 749.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Global Environmental Regulation: Instrument Choice in Legal Context.” Yale Law Journal 108 (1999): 677.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Managing the Iatrogenic Risks of Risk Management.” Risk: Health, Safety & Env. 9 (1998): 39.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., and F. Cross. “Foreword: The Puzzle of Environmental Politics.” Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 9 (1998): 1.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Designing Global Climate Policy: Efficient Markets vs. Political Markets,” 1997.
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Wiener, J. “Risk in the Republic.” Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 8 (1997): 1.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Law and the New Ecology: Evolution, Categories and Consequences.” Ecology Law Quarterly 22 (1996): 325.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Beyond the Balance of Nature.” Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 7 (1996): 1.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Book Review.” Review of European Community & International Environmental Law 4 (1995): 207.
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Wiener, J., C. Gray, F. Anderson, B. Fischhoff, L. Gold, D. Hornig, S. Jasanoff, et al. “Reforming Risk Regulation: Achieving More Protection at Less Cost, Report of the Harvard Group on Risk Management Reform.” Hum. & Eco. Risk Assessment, 1995.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Forum: Reforming Superfund.” Issues in Science & Technology, 1994, 8.
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Wiener, J. “The Climate Change Convention,” 1992.
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Wiener, J., R. Stewart, and D. Dudek. “Environmental Policy for Eastern Europe: Technology-Based versus Market-Based Approaches.” Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 17 (1992): 1.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., and R. Stewart. “The Comprehensive Approach to Global Climate Policy: Issues of Design and Practicality.” Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law 9 (1992): 83.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., and R. Stewart. “A Comprehensive Approach to Climate Change.” American Enterprise, 1990, 74.
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Wiener, J., and J. Weinstein. “Of Sailing ships and Seeking Facts: Brief Reflections on Magistrates and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.” St. John’S Law Review 62 (1987): 429.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Developments in the Law of Toxic Waste Litigation: Bankruptcy and Insurance Issues.” Harvard Law Review 99 (1986): 1573–1601.Link to Item
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Book Sections
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Wiener, J., J. Graham, and L. Robinson. “Co-Benefits, Countervailing Risks, and Cost-Benefit Analysis (Accepted).” In Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: Theory and Practice. John Wiley & Sons, 2021.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., and J. Graham. “Agenda Setting at EPA.” In Fifty Years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Progress, Retrenchment, and Opportunities, 485–522. Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
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Wiener, J., and L. Bennear. “Built to Learn: From Static to Adaptive Environmental Policy.” In A Better Planet: 40 Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future, 353–60. Yale University Press, 2019.
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Wiener, J. “Precautionary Principle.” In Principles of Environmental Law, 174–85. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., E. Balleisen, L. Bennear, and K. Krawiec. “Conclusions--– Recalibrating Risk: Crises, Learning, and Regulatory Change.” In Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents, and Financial Crises, 435–82. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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Wiener, J., J. Bi, G. Greene, and Z. Ma. “China's Development and Environmental Risk Management.” In Risk Conundrums: Solving Unsolvable Problems, 112–26. Earthscan, 2017.
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Wiener, J., and A. Alemanno. “Comparing Regulatory Oversight Bodies: The US Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and the EU Regulatory Scrutiny Board.” In Comparative Administrative Law, 333–51. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Precaution and Climate Change.” In Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law, 163–84. Oxford University Press, 2016.
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Wiener, J. “Climate Policy in the New US Administration,” 2016:45–61. FrancoAngeli Editore, 2016.
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Wiener, J., and D. Ribeiro. “Impact Assessment: Diffusion and Integration.” In Comparative Law and Regulation, 159–89. Edward Elgar, 2016.
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Wiener, J. “Towards an Effective System of Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification.” In Towards a Workable and Effective Climate Regime, 2015.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., J. Reichman, A. Rai, and R. Newell. “Intellectual Property and Alternatives: Strategies for Green Innovation.” In Intellectual Property Rights: Legal and Economic Challenges for Development, 356–91, 2014.
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Wiener, J., R. Stavins, Z. Ji, and O. Others. “International Cooperation: Agreements and Institutions.” In Climate Change 2014: Mitigation, 2014.
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Wiener, J. “The Diffusion of Regulatory Oversight.” In Globalization of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy, 123–41, 2013.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “The Rhetoric of Precaution.” In The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe. RFF Press/Earthscan/Routledge, 2011.
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Wiener, J. “The Real Pattern of Precaution.” In The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe. RFF Press/Earthscan/Routledge, 2011.
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Wiener, J., B. Swedlow, D. Kall, Z. Zhou, and J. Hammitt. “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. RFF Press/Earthscan/Routledge, 2011.
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Wiener, J., G. Gray, and M. Rogers. “Beef, Hormones and Mad Cows.” In The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe. RFF Press/Earthscan/Routledge, 2011.
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Wiener, J., and J. Stern. “Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction.” In The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe. RFF Press/Earthscan/Routledge, 2011.
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Richman, B., and J. Wiener. “Mechanism Choice.” In Research Handbook on Public Choice and Public Law, 363–96, 2010.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Risk Regulation and Governance Institutions.” In Risk and Regulatory Policy: Improving the Governance of Risk. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 2010.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., and B. Richman. “Mechanism Choice.” In Research Handbook on Public Choice and Public Law, 363–96, 2010.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Precaution.” In Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law, 597–612, 2007.
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Wiener, J. “Incentives and Meta-Architectures: Comments on Jeffrey Frankel.” In Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World, 67–80. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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Wiener, J. “Making Markets for Global Forests Conservation.” In Painting the White House Green: Environmental Economics in the White House, 119–40, 2004.
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Wiener, J. “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, 2004.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Sustainable Governance.” In The Moral Austerity of Environmental Decisionmaking, 2002.
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Wiener, J. “Designing Global Climate Regulation.” In Climate Change Policy: A Survey (, 2002.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Precaution in a Multi-Risk World.” In Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: Theory and Practice, 1509, 2002.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Policy Design for International Greenhouse Gas Control.” In Climate Change Economics and Policy: An RFF Anthology, 205–15, 2001.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Solving the Precautionary Paradox: Policy Approaches to Improve Measurement of Greenhouse Gas Sources and Sinks.” In Non-Co2 Greenhouse Gases, 1994.
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Wiener, J., D. Dudek, and R. Stewart. “Technology-Based Approaches versus Market-Based Approaches.” In Greening International Law, 1993.
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Wiener, J. “The Comprehensive Approach, Greenhouse Taxes and Informal Emission Trading.” In Climate Change: Designing a Practical Tax System. OECD, 1992.
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Other Articles
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Wiener, J., L. Heinzerling, and S. Tierney. “Climate Change and the Supreme Court.” Resources, 2022.
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Wiener, J. “Rebooting America: Administrative Law and Risk Regulation.” Duke Law Magazine, 2021.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. ““Gotta Catch ’em All”.” Yale Journal on Regulation: Notice & Comment, 2021.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., and J. Xu. “Comparing U.S. and Chinese Environmental Risk Regulation.” Regulatory Review, 2021.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., and L. Bennear. “Pursuing Periodic Review of Agency Regulation.” Regulatory Review, 2021.Link to Item
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Dreicer, Robert, and Judd W. Moul. “New data, new paradigms for treating patients with prostate cancer. Conclusion.” Urology, November 2011. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.urology.2011.03.060.Full Text Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Want a President Who Weighs the Risks Well.” News & Observer, 2009.Link to Item
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Scholarly Editions
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Wiener, J., and J. Stern. “Precaution Against Terrorism,” 2007.Link to Item
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Reports
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Wiener, J., and L. Bennear. “Periodic Review of Agency Regulation: Report for the Administrative Conference of the United States.” Administrative Conference of the United States, 2021.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., C. Hamilton, D. Buckland, T. Felgenhauer, S. Kaplan, and J. Weintraub. “Martian Migration: Policy Report on Science, Society, and Sustainability.” Duke Project on Going to Mars. Duke University Bass Connections and Duke Center on Risk in the Science and Society Initiative, 2021.Link to Item
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Wiener, J. “Reviewing Retrospective Regulatory Review (Accepted).” Report of the Duke Project (Bass Connections), 2018.
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Wiener, J. “Transatlantic Patterns of Risk Regulation: Implications for International Trade and Cooperation.” International Risk Governance Council IRGC, 2017.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., A. Peterson, J. Graham, K. Oye, O. Renn, C. Benighaus, and M. V. Florin. “Transatlantic Patterns of Risk Regulation: Implications for International Trade and Cooperation.” International Risk Governance Council (IRGC) report to the European Parliament, 2017.Link to Item
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Wiener, J., J. Bi, G. Greene, J. Qu, K. Wang, J. Wang, S. Andrews, et al. “Eco-Environmental Risk Management.” China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, 2015.Link to Item
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Rai, A., R. Newell, J. Reichman, and J. Wiener. “Intellectual Property and Alternatives: Strategies for Green Innovation,” 2008.Open Access Copy Link to Item
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Conference Papers
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Wiener, J., and A. Alemanno. “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,” 309–35. Edward Elgar, 2010.Link to Item
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
- ENERGY 835: Environmental Law 2022
- ENVIRON 502: Climate Change and the Law 2022
- ENVIRON 592: UNFCCC Practicum 2022
- ENVIRON 593: Independent Studies and Projects 2022
- ENVIRON 733: Risk Regulation in the United States, Europe, and Beyond 2022
- ENVIRON 835: Environmental Law 2022
- ENVIRON 899: Master's Project 2022
- LAW 170: Property 2022
- LAW 235: Environmental Law 2022
- LAW 520: Climate Change and the Law 2022
- LAW 590: Risk Regulation in the United States, Europe, and Beyond 2022
- LAW 611: Readings 2022
- LAW 640: Independent Research 2022
- PUBPOL 592: UNFCCC Practicum 2022
- PUBPOL 891: Advanced Special Topics in Public Policy 2022
- DECSCI 235: Risk 2021
- ECON 235: Risk 2021
- ENERGY 396T: Bass Connections Energy & Environment Research Team 2021
- ENERGY 796T: Bass Connections Energy & Environment Research Team 2021
- ENERGY 835: Environmental Law 2021
- ENVIRON 502: Climate Change and the Law 2021
- ENVIRON 592: UNFCCC Practicum 2021
- ENVIRON 593: Independent Studies and Projects 2021
- ENVIRON 733: Risk Regulation in the United States, Europe, and Beyond 2021
- ENVIRON 835: Environmental Law 2021
- ENVIRON 899: Master's Project 2021
- LAW 170: Property 2021
- LAW 235: Environmental Law 2021
- LAW 520: Climate Change and the Law 2021
- LAW 590: Risk Regulation in the United States, Europe, and Beyond 2021
- LAW 611: Readings 2021
- LAW 644: Bass Connections for Law Credit 2021
- PUBPOL 235: Risk 2021
- PUBPOL 592: UNFCCC Practicum 2021
- PUBPOL 891: Advanced Special Topics in Public Policy 2021
- SCISOC 235: Risk 2021
- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
- Bass Connections Team Leader. Going to Mars: Science, Society and Sustainability. 2020 - 2021 2020 - 2021
- Bass Connections Team Leader. DECIPHER: Decisions on the Risks and Benefits of Geoengineering the Climate. 2019 - 2020 2019 - 2020
- Bass Connections Faculty Team Leader. DECIPHER: Case Studies in Drinking Water Quality. 2018 - 2019 2018 - 2019
- Bass Connections Faculty Team Member. Decisions on Complex Interdisciplinary Problems of Health and Environmental Risk (D-CIPHER) . August 2017 - May 2018 2017 - 2018
- Bass Connections Faculty Team Member. Governance and Adaptive Regulation of Transformational Technologies in Transportation. August 2017 - May 2018 2017 - 2018
- Bass Connections Faculty Team Member . Developing Departmental Energy Reports and a Carbon Pricing Program for Duke University. August 2016 - May 2017 2016 - 2017
- Bass Connections Faculty Team Member. Reviewing Retrospective Regulatory Review. August 2015 - May 2016 2015 - 2016
- Bass Connections Faculty Team Member . Regulatory Disaster Scene Investigation. August 2014 - August 2015 2014 - 2015
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Service to Duke
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