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Mark S. Weiner is an American writer, web-based documentary filmmaker, and legal historian. He retains the position of professor of law at
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School of Law—
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, where he teaches constitutional law and legal history, though he turned to a full-time writing career in 2012 and stopped actively teaching at the school. He blogs at his website Worlds of Law. Weiner received his A.B. from
Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
, where he graduated with Honors and Distinction and was elected to
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. He holds a J.D. from
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and a Ph.D. in American Studies from
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, where he was awarded a
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Fellowship from the
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, a Samuel I. Golieb Fellowship in Legal History from
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, and a dissertation fellowship from the Whiting Foundation. He received a fellowship from the
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in 2001. In 2009 he was a
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at the University of Akureyri, Iceland. He is the author of three books: ''The Rule of the Clan: What an Ancient Form of Social Organization Reveals about the Future of Individual Freedom'' ( Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2013), ''Americans without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship'' (New York University Press, 2006), and ''Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste'' (
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, 2004). ''The Rule of the Clan'' received the 2015 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. ''Black Trials'' was selected a 2005 Silver Gavel Award winner by the
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for its contribution to the public understanding of law. ''Americans Without Law'' was awarded the President's Book Award from the Social Science History Association (see juridical racialism). Weiner has written numerous articles about a wide variety of topics involving law, culture, and historical consciousness. Topics of his work include the memory of medieval law in modern Iceland, the Argentinean statesman Domingo Sarmiento, kinship and legal identity in Muslim societies, the history of Coca-Cola, and corporate food museums. He has likewise published poems on historical themes in the experimental journal ''Rethinking History''. Other notable publications include "New Biographical Evidence on Somerset's Case," in ''Slavery & Abolition'' (2002). Weiner has produced short documentary videos about legal history and comparative law. His work includes videos about the Napoleonic Code
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law, "Why German Law is Like Music," the use of stone and glass in
European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been des ...
legal buildings, and judicial bobbleheads. Weiner is the godson of the photographer Stuart Klipper. He is married to Stephanie Kuduk Weiner, an English professor at
Wesleyan University Wesleyan University ( ) is a Private university, private liberal arts college, liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. Founded in 1831 as a Men's colleges in the United States, men's college under the auspices of the Methodist Epis ...
.


Works

*''Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship''.
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,
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. () *''Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste.''
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, New York City, NY. (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. . http://www.worldsoflaw.com


References

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