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.
[2] In 2006, Wiener was the first law professor or lawyer to be elected president of the International Society for Risk Analysis; he served a one-year term in that post beginning December 2007.
[4] He teaches courses on Property, Environmental Law, and Risk Regulation.
His books include The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe (RFF Press, 2011, with others) and Risk v. Risk (Harvard University Press, 1995) with John D. Graham, who would later go on to become the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under George W. Bush.
Wiener was a chapter lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 5th Assessment Report, Working Group III, Chapter 13, "International Cooperation: Agreements and Institutions" (2014).