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Meet the first class to enter Stanford's new Faculty College
The team members are Scott Sagan, political science; Debra Satz, philosophy; Allen Weiner, senior lecturer, law; Paul Wise, professor in child health, medicine; and Joseph Felter, senior research scholar at the Center for International Security and ...
June 15, 2011 in Stanford University News

Obama's Libya attack angers Bay Area lawmakers
Congress' power to stop the administration short of cutting off funds is limited. But Allen Weiner, director of the international law program at Stanford University, said, "That's a political catastrophe for Congress because the president gets to say they are leaving the troops without the resources they need."
March 22, 2011 in San Francisco Chronicle

Israel's flotilla raid revives questions of international law
"The Israeli blockade itself against Gaza itself is not illegal, and it's okay for Israeli ships to operate in international waters to enforce it," said Allen Weiner, former State Department lawyer and legal counselor at the American Embassy in the Hague, and now a professor at Stanford Law School.
June 1, 2010 in Washington Post

Campaigns host joint Middle East debate
Law professor Allen Weiner moderated the debate between Quran and Kabaker, who spent the first part of the debate considering the wider picture of the ...
May 25, 2010 in The Stanford Daily