Directory

Bibliography

Forthcoming

Advanced Introduction to Risk Regulation (Edward Elgar Publications, forthcoming) (with K. Arden Rowell)
Planetary Policies for Defense Against Asteroids and Protection Against Contamination, in Space Risk Management: Securing Progress for Humanity (Saquib Hyat-Khan & Kurt Engemann eds/, forthcoming) (with others)
Space as Province, Property, and Planetary Protection: Risk and the Rise of the Interplanetary, in Province of All Mankind”? Property in Outer Space Under Public and Private International Law & Philosophy (Samantha Besson ed., forthcoming)
Artificial General Intelligence and Existential Risk: Lessons from Climate Change Policy (forthcoming) (with K. Arden Rowell)
Unintended Consequences and Solar Radiation Modification (forthcoming) (with others)

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, 2011) (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)
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 & Essays

Interplanetary Risk Regulation, 26 Chicago Journal of International Law 73-106 (2025) (with Chase Hamilton)
Multi-Risk Governance of Solar Radiation Modification, 16 European Journal of Risk Regulation 1246-1262 (2025) (with others)
Practical Paths to Risk-Risk Analysis of Solar Radiation Modification, 5 Oxford Open Climate Change, article kgaf012, 1-9 (2025) (with others)
The International Risk Governance Council: Reflections on a Twenty-Year Experiment in Support of Improved Risk Governance, 45 Risk Analysis 3860-3874 (2025) (with others)
Co-Benefits, Countervailing Risks, and Cost-Benefit Analysis, in Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: Theory and Practice 1167-1188 (Dennis J. Paustenbach ed., 2024) (with John D. Graham)
Improving Risk Governance Strategies via Learning: A Comparative Analysis of Solar Radiation Modification and Gene Drives, 44 Environment Systems and Decisions 1054-1067 (2024) (with others)
Monitoring for SRM: Goals, Needs, and Governance (Duke Center on Risk in Science & Society, 2024) (with others)
The Evolving International Climate Change Regime: Mitigation, Adaptation, Reflection, 11 Texas A&M Law Review 451-485 (2024) (with Tyler Felgenhauer)
Modernizing Regulatory Review: Assessing All Important Impacts, 48 Administrative & Regulatory Law News 11-14 (2023) (reprinted in Notice & Comment on June 7, 2023)
Agency Actions Under the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policy Act (FEBPA): March 2022 Update (RFF Meeting on Retrospective Analysis of Regulation, 2022) (with others)
Comparing Environmental Risk Regulations in China and the United States, 42 Risk Analysis 730-756 (2022) (with others)
Solar Radiation Modification: A Risk-Risk Analysis (Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative (C2G), 2022) (with others)
Agenda Setting at EPA, in Fifty Years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Progress, Retrenchment, and Opportunities 485-522 (A. James Barnes, John D. Graham & David Konisky eds., 2021) (with John D. Graham)
Disregard and Due Regard, 29 NYU Environmental Law Journal 437-469 (2021)
Institutional Roles and Goals for Retrospective Regulatory Analysis, 12 Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis 466-493 (2021) (with Lori S. Bennear)
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) (with others)
Periodic Review of Agency Regulation: Report for the Administrative Conference of the United States (Administrative Conference of the United States, 2021) (with Lori S. Bennear)
Social Science Research to Inform Solar Geoengineering, 374 Science 815-818 (2021) (with others)
Learning to Manage the Multirisk World, 40 Risk Analysis S1, 2137-2143 (2020)
Built to Learn: From Static to Adaptive Environmental Policy, in A Better Planet: 40 Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future 353-360 (Daniel C. Esty ed., 2019) (with Lori S. Bennear)
Emerging Risk Governance for Stratospheric Aerosol Injection as a Climate Management Technology, 39 Environment Systems and Decisions 371-382 (2019) (with others)
Precautionary Principle, in Principles of Environmental Law 174-185 (Ludwig Krämer & Emanuela Orlando eds., 2018) (Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law; v. VI)
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)
On Morals, Markets, and Climate Change: Exploring Pope Francis’ Challenge, 80 Law & Contemporary Problems 135-162 (No. 1 2017) (with others)
China's Development and Environmental Risk Management, in Risk Conundrums: Solving Unsolvable Problems 112-126 (Roger E Kasperson ed., 2017) (with others)
Comparing Regulatory Oversight Bodies: 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)
Introduction, in Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents and Financial Crises 1-39 (Edward Balleisen, Lori Bennear, Kim Krawiec & Jonathan Wiener eds., 2017) (with others)
Recalibrating Risk: Crises, Learning, and Regulatory Change, in Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents, and Financial Crises 540-561 (Edward Balleisen, Lori Bennear, Kim Krawiec & Jonathan Wiener eds., 2017) (with others)
Risk Regulation and Future Learning, 8 European Journal of Risk Regulation 4-9 (2017)
Climate Policy in the New US Administration, 2016 Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment 45-61 (2016)
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 L. Ribeiro)
Precaution and Climate Change, in Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law 163-184 (Cinnamon Piñon Carlarne et al. eds., 2016)
The Tragedy of the Uncommons: On the Politics of Apocalypse, 7 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 183-200 (Scott Barrett, Carlo Carraro, & Jaime de Melo eds. , 2015)
International Cooperation: Agreements and Institutions, in Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change 1001-1082 (Ottmar Edenhofer et al. eds., 2014) (Contribution of Working Group III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) (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 Reviews, 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 Real Pattern of Precaution, in The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe 519-565 (Jonathan B. Wiener et al. eds., 2011)
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 377-408 (Jonathan B. Wiener et al. eds., 2011) (with others)
Beef, Hormones and Mad Cows, in The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe 65-90 (Jonathan B. Wiener et al. eds., 2011) (with others)
Book Review, 30 Health Affairs 796-797 (2011) (reviewing George J. Annas, Worst Case Bioethics: Death, Disaster and Public Health (2010)) 4/1/2011
Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction, in The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe 285-320 (Jonathan B. Wiener et al. eds., 2011) (with Jessica Stern)
The Rhetoric of Precaution, in The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe 3-35 (Jonathan B. Wiener et al. eds., 2011)
What Begat Property?, 43 History of Political Economy 353-360 (2011)
Risk Regulation and Governance Institutions, in Risk and Regulatory Policy: Improving the Governance of Risk 133-157 (2010)
Response to Daniel Abebe and Jonathan Masur on climate change and the 'Two Chinas', 2010 (2010)
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))
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)
Recommendations to OMB on Regulatory Review (Society for Risk Analysis, Committee of Past Presidents, March 16, 2009 (chair of Committee) , 2009) (with others)
Engaging China on Climate Change, 171 Resources 29-33 (Winter/Spring 2009)
Les Échelles de Temps et de Lieu, in Regards Croisés Sur L’Internationalisation du Droit : France - Etats-Unis, Réseau ID Franco-Américain (Mireille Delmas-Marty & Stephen Breyer eds., 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 (Chatham House, Programme paper: EEDP 08/03 (reprinted in Intellectual Property Rights: Legal and Economic Challenges for Development (Mario Cimoli et al. eds., 2014)) , 2008) (with others)
Issues in the Comparison of Regulatory Oversight Bodies, 2008 (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)
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, 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 Brunnée & 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 110-183 (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)
A Pattern of Parity and Particularity, in (2006) (part of the forum “Who’s Ahead in Environmental Protection: The United States or the European Union?”)
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)
'Adverse Effects' and Similar Terms in U.S. Law (Report for Dose Response Specialty Group of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA), July, 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: Rationalizing Environmental Policy Inside the Executive Office of the President 119-140 (Randall Lutter & Jason F. Shogren eds., 2004)
Practical Climate Change Policy, 20 Issues in Science and Technology 71-78 (Winter 2004) (with Richard B. Stewart)
The Regulation of Technology and the Technology of Regulation, 26 Technology in Society 483-500 (2004)
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 151-187 (Stephen Schneider, Armin Rosencranz & John O. Niles eds., 2002)
Precaution in a Multi-Risk World, in Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: Theory and Practice 1509-1531 (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 (2000) (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 Versus Political Markets (Center for the Study of American Business (CSAB), Washington University in St. Louis, Policy Study number 143, 1997)
Risk in the Republic, 8 Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 1 (1997)
Joint Implementation, Transaction Costs, and Climate Change (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Environment Directorate, OCDE/GD(96)173, 1996) (with Daniel J. Dudek)
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 Reviews, 4 Review of European Community & International Environmental Law 218-220 (1995) (reviewing Joint 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, 1 Human and Ecological Risk Assessment 183-206 (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: Why and How to Control? 527-531 (J. Van Ham et al. eds., 1994)
Technology-Based Approaches Versus Market-Based Approaches, in Greening International Law 182-209 (Philippe 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 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development: Presentations and Papers, May and August 1991 (Elissa C. Lichtenstein & Randall Abate eds., 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 Emissions Trading, in Climate Change: Designing a Practical Tax System 163-175 (1992)
A Comprehensive Approach to Climate Change, 1 American Enterprise 75-80 (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 and Contemporary Problems (No. 3 & 4, 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

Climate Change and the Supreme Court, 210 Resources (May 19, 2022, at 22) (with others)
Would Solar Radiation Modification Increase or Decrease Overall Risk, C2G Blog (May 9, 2022) (with others)
Comparing U.S. and Chinese Environmental Risk Regulation, Regulatory Review (December 20, 2021) (with Jianhua Xu)
Pursuing Periodic Review of Agency Regulation, Regulatory Review (November 9, 2021) (with Lori S. Bennear)
“Gotta Catch ’em All”, Yale Journal on Regulation: Notice & Comment (October 19, 2021)
Rebooting America: Administrative Law and Risk Regulation, 40 Duke Law Magazine (January 1, 2021)
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, 311 Science (January 20, 2006) (letters) (with others)
Save the Kyoto Protocol, 22 Issues in Science & Technology (January 1, 2006, at 9) (Letter Responding to Ruth Greenspan Bell) (Spring 2006) (with others)

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Bibliography

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Books

Articles & Essays

Issues Edited

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Jonathan B. Wiener