Stanford Law School
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Room 234
Stanford, CA 94305

aweiner@stanford.edu
(650) 724-5892 (voice)
(650) 725-2592 (fax)

Expertise
international law and the use of force, particularly regarding terrorism and weapons of mass destruction; international criminal law and war crimes tribunals; terrorism/counter terrorism;

Allen Weiner is an associate professor of law (teaching) at the Stanford Law School, as well as the inaugural Warren Christopher Professor of the Practice of International Law and Diplomacy. His expertise is in the field of public international law and the foreign relations law of the United States. His work focuses on the effect of positive international law rules on the conduct of foreign relations and other implications for the behavior of states, courts (both national and international), and other international actors. He teaches courses in public international law and international criminal law at Stanford Law School.

Before coming to Stanford, Weiner served for 12 years as a career attorney in the U.S. Department of State. He served in the Office of the Legal Adviser in Washington, D.C. (1990-1996) and at the U.S. Embassy in The Hague (1996-2001), most recently as legal counselor, in which capacity he served as the U.S. Government's principal day-to-day interlocutor with the international legal institutions in The Hague, including the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal. He received a BA from Harvard College and a JD from Stanford Law School.