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Mark S. Weiner

Professor of Law and Sidney I. Reitman Scholar
(on leave 2009-2010) 

Professor Weiner received his A.B. from Stanford University, where he graduated with honors and distinction and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University, where he was awarded a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Education, a Samuel I. Golieb Fellowship in Legal History from New York University School of Law, and a dissertation fellowship from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation.

Professor Weiner is the author of Black Trials: Citizenship From the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), which was selected a 2005 Silver Gavel Award winner by the American Bar Association. Professor Weiner also received a year-long fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for Black Trials. His latest book, Americans without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship (NYU Press, 2006), was awarded the President’s Book Award from the Social Science History Association.

Professor Weiner has been named the 2009/2010 Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Scholar at Rutgers University, Newark. In the fall of 2009, he will be a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Akureyri, Iceland.