Mark Weiner
Mark S. Weiner | |
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Occupation(s) | 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]
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. Talbott Publishers, Clark, New Jersey ISBN 978-1-616-19160-3
References
- ^ https://www.telosinstitute.net/leadership/
- ^ "Mark Weiner," Rutgers Law School, https://law.rutgers.edu/mark-s-weiner
- ^ IMDb, "The Volunteers: Mountain Rescue Brings Us Home,"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31946119/
- ^ "Mark Weiner," Rutgers Law School, https://law.rutgers.edu/mark-s-weiner
- ^ 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
- ^ "2015—Mark Weiner," http://grawemeyer.org/world-order/#toggle-id-3
- ^ 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
- ^ SSHA, "Presidents Book Award," https://ssha.org/awards/president_award/
- ^ "2018," https://www.aallnet.org/community/recognition/awards-program/joseph-l-andrews-legal-literature-award/
- ^ "Mark Weiner," Rutgers Law School, https://law.rutgers.edu/mark-s-weiner
- ^ [1]