- Senior Lecturer in Law
- Director, Stanford Program in International and Comparative Law
- Director, Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation
- Room N238, Neukom Building
Expertise
- International Conflict Resolution
- International Criminal Law
- International Dispute Resolution
- International Human Rights Law
- International Law
- Law of Armed Conflict
- National Security Law
- Separation of Powers
- Transnational Justice
Biography
Director, Stanford Program in International and Comparative Law; Director, Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation
Allen S. Weiner, JD ’89, is an international legal scholar with expertise in such wide-ranging fields as international and national security law, the law of war, international conflict resolution, and international criminal law (including transitional justice). His scholarship focuses on international law and the response to the contemporary security threats of international terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and situations of widespread humanitarian atrocities. He also explores assertions by states of “war powers” under international law, domestic law, and just war theory in the context of asymmetric armed conflicts between states and nonstate armed groups and the response to terrorism. In the realm of international conflict resolution, his highly multidisciplinary work analyzes the barriers to resolving violent political conflicts, with a particular focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Weiner’s scholarship is deeply informed by experience; he practiced international law in the U.S. Department of State for more than a decade advising government policymakers, negotiating international agreements, and representing the United States in litigation before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the International Court of Justice, and the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal.
Senior Lecturer Weiner is director of the Stanford Program in International and Comparative Law and director of the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 2003, Weiner served as legal counselor to the U.S. Embassy in The Hague and attorney adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State. He was a law clerk to Judge John Steadman of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
Education
- BA Harvard University 1985
- JD Stanford Law School 1989
Related Organizations
Courses
- Confronting Misinformation Online: Law and Policy
- Directed Professional Writing
- Directed Research
- Externship, Special Circumstances
- Foreign Legal Study: Bucerius Law School
- Foreign Legal Study: Esade Law School
- Foreign Legal Study: Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Foreign Legal Study: Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
- Foreign Legal Study: National University of Singapore
- Foreign Legal Study: Peking University Law School
- Foreign Legal Study: University of Vienna
- Foreign Legal Study: Waseda University
- International Law
- TGR: Dissertation
- The Law of War
Affiliations & Honors
- Affiliated Faculty, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
- Affiliated Faculty, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
- Affiliated Faculty, Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies, Stanford University
- Trustee, Sequoia Union High School District Governing Board Member, Council on Foreign Relations
- Member, American Society of International Law
- Member, Council on Foreign Relations
- Member, Pacific Council on International Policy
- Member of the Board of Directors, Immigrant Legal Resource Center
- Recipient, State Department Superior Honor Award, 1992 (individual), 1995 (group), 1999 (group)
- Recipient, Federal Bar Association Younger Federal Lawyer Award, 1997
- Honorable Mention, Associated Students of Stanford University Teacher of the Year Award (2006)