Mark Weiner

Who is Mark Weiner?

Mark S. Weiner is a writer, web-based documentary filmmaker, and legal historian. He retains the position of professor of law at Rutgers University School of Law—Newark, where he taught constitutional law and legal history, though he turned to a full-time writing career in 2012 and is no longer actively teaching at the school. He blogs at his website Worlds of Law.

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 United States Department of Education, a Samuel I. Golieb Fellowship in Legal History from New York University School of Law, and a dissertation fellowship from the Whiting Foundation. He received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2001. In 2009 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Akureyri, Iceland.