{{short description|American writer and legal scholar}} {{about||the abstract painter|Mark Wiener|the children's television host|Marc Weiner}} {{BLP primary sources|date=May 2008}}
{{infobox person| name=Mark S. Weiner| occupation=writer, filmmaker, legal scholar|}} '''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.<ref>https://www.telosinstitute.net/leadership/</ref> He was formerly a professor of constitutional law and legal history at Rutgers University School of Law—Newark.<ref>"Mark Weiner," Rutgers Law School, https://law.rutgers.edu/mark-s-weiner</ref>
Weiner is co-director of the feature-length documentary ''[https://www.thevolunteersdoc.com/ The Volunteers: Mountain Rescue Brings Us Home]'' (2024).<ref>IMDb, "The Volunteers: Mountain Rescue Brings Us Home,"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31946119/</ref> 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).<ref>"Mark Weiner," Rutgers Law School, https://law.rutgers.edu/mark-s-weiner</ref> 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.<ref>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</ref>
''The Rule of the Clan'' received the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.<ref>"2015—Mark Weiner," http://grawemeyer.org/world-order/#toggle-id-3</ref> ''Black Trials'' received the Silver Gavel Award of the American Bar Association for its contribution to the public understanding of law.<ref>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</ref> ''Americans Without Law'' was awarded the Presidents Book Award from the Social Science History Association.<ref>SSHA, "Presidents Book Award," https://ssha.org/awards/president_award/</ref> ''Law's Picture Books'' received the Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award from the American Association of Law Libraries.<ref>"2018," https://www.aallnet.org/community/recognition/awards-program/joseph-l-andrews-legal-literature-award/</ref>
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.<ref>"Mark Weiner," Rutgers Law School, https://law.rutgers.edu/mark-s-weiner</ref> His website is [https://worldsoflaw.wordpress.com/ Worlds of Law].<ref>[https://worldsoflaw.wordpress.com/biography-2/]</ref>
== Works ==
*''Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship''. New York University Press, New York City, NY. ({{ISBN|0-8147-9364-9}}) *''Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste.'' Alfred A. Knopf, New York City, NY. {{ISBN|978-0-375-40981-3}} (0-375-40981-5) *''The Rule of the Clan: What an Ancient Form of Social Organization Reveals about the Future of Individual Freedom.'' Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, NY. {{ISBN|0-374-25281-5}}. *''Law's Picture Books: The Yale Law Library Collection.'' [https://talbotpublishers.com/ Talbott Publishers], Clark, New Jersey {{ISBN|978-1-616-19160-3}}
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