| Mark S. Weiner | |
| Occupation: | writer, filmmaker, legal scholar |
Mark S. Weiner is an American scholar, writer, and documentary filmmaker. He is the president of Hidden Cabinet Films and is the executive director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute.[1] He was formerly a professor of constitutional law and legal history at Rutgers University School of Law—Newark.[2]
Weiner is co-director of the feature-length documentary The Volunteers: Mountain Rescue Brings Us Home (2024).[3] 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).[4] 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.[5]
The Rule of the Clan received the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.[6] Black Trials received the Silver Gavel Award of the American Bar Association for its contribution to the public understanding of law.[7] Americans Without Law was awarded the Presidents Book Award from the Social Science History Association.[8] Law's Picture Books received the Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award from the American Association of Law Libraries.[9]
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.[10] His website is Worlds of Law.[11]