Mark S. Weiner
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Mark S. Weiner is a professor of law at Rutgers University School of Law - Newark. He teaches constitutional law, professional responsibility and legal history.
Professor Weiner received his A.B. from Stanford University, where he graduated with Honors and Distinction and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University, where he was awarded a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from the United States Department of Education, a Samuel I. Golieb Fellowship in Legal History from New York University School of Law, and a dissertation fellowship from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation.
He is the author of Black Trials: Citizenship From the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), which has been selected a 2005 Silver Gavel Award winner by the American Bar Association. Professor Weiner also received a year-long fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for Black Trials. His book Americans without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship (New York University Press, 2006) was awarded the President's Book Award from the Social Science History Association (see juridical racialism). Other publications include New Biographical Evidence on Somerset's Case, in Slavery & Abolition (2002).
