# Mark Weiner

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{{short description|American writer and legal scholar}}
{{about||the abstract painter|Mark Wiener|the children's television host|Marc Weiner}}
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  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](/source/Telos_Institute).<ref>https://www.telosinstitute.net/leadership/</ref> He was formerly a professor of constitutional law and legal history at [Rutgers University](/source/Rutgers_University) School of Law—[Newark](/source/Newark%2C_New_Jersey).<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](/source/Farrar%2C_Straus%2C_and_Giroux), 2013), ''Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste'' ([Alfred A. Knopf](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Silver_Gavel_Award) of the [American Bar Association](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Akureyri), Iceland; [Salzburg](/source/Salzburg), Austria; and [Uppsala](/source/Uppsala), Sweden. He received an A.B. from [Stanford University](/source/Stanford_University), a J.D. from [Yale Law School](/source/Yale_Law_School), and a Ph.D. in American Studies from [Yale University](/source/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](/source/New_York_University_Press), [New York City, NY](/source/New_York_City%2C_NY). ({{ISBN|0-8147-9364-9}})
*''Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste.''  [Alfred A. Knopf](/source/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](/source/Farrar%2C_Straus%2C_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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