Mark Weiner

{{short description|American writer and legal scholar}}

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Mark S. Weiner is an American scholar, writer, and documentary filmmaker. He is the president of [https://hiddencabinet.org/board-of-directors/ Hidden Cabinet Films] and is the executive director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute.https://www.telosinstitute.net/leadership/ He was formerly a professor of constitutional law and legal history at Rutgers University School of Law—Newark."Mark Weiner," Rutgers Law School, https://law.rutgers.edu/mark-s-weiner

Weiner is co-director of the feature-length documentary [https://www.thevolunteersdoc.com/ The Volunteers: Mountain Rescue Brings Us Home] (2024).IMDb, "The Volunteers: Mountain Rescue Brings Us Home,"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31946119/

He is the author of The Rule of the Clan: What an Ancient Form of Social Organization Reveals about the Future of Individual Freedom (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2013), Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), and Americans without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship (New York University Press, 2006)."Mark Weiner," Rutgers Law School, https://law.rutgers.edu/mark-s-weiner He is co-editor of the exhibition catalogue Law's Picture Books: The Yale Law Library Collection (2017), which is based on a critically-acclaimed rare books exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York City.Edward Rothstein, "‘Law’s Picture Books: The Yale Law Library Collection’: Illustrating the Letter of the Law," Wall Street Journal, September 26, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/laws-picture-books-the-yale-law-library-collection-illustrating-the-letter-of-the-law-1506460653

The Rule of the Clan received the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order."2015—Mark Weiner," http://grawemeyer.org/world-order/#toggle-id-3 Black Trials received the Silver Gavel Award of the American Bar Association for its contribution to the public understanding of law.Brian Leiter, "Legal Historian Wins Silver Gavel Award," https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2005/06/legal_scholar_w.html; see also "American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award Winners," https://www.goodreads.com/award/show/12828-american-bar-association-silver-gavel-award Americans Without Law was awarded the Presidents Book Award from the Social Science History Association.SSHA, "Presidents Book Award," https://ssha.org/awards/president_award/ Law's Picture Books received the Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award from the American Association of Law Libraries."2018," https://www.aallnet.org/community/recognition/awards-program/joseph-l-andrews-legal-literature-award/

Weiner has served as a Fulbright Scholar in Akureyri, Iceland; Salzburg, Austria; and Uppsala, Sweden. He received an A.B. from Stanford University, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University."Mark Weiner," Rutgers Law School, https://law.rutgers.edu/mark-s-weiner His website is [https://worldsoflaw.wordpress.com/ Worlds of Law].[https://worldsoflaw.wordpress.com/biography-2/]