Associate Professor of Law. (Constitutional Law; Professional Responsibility; Legal History.) 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. He is the author of Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), for which he was awarded a yearlong fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the forthcoming Americans without Law: A History of Race, Anthropology, and Citizenship (New York University Press), which was awarded the President`s Book Award from the Social Science History Association. His most recent publications include "Teutonic Constitutionalism: The Role of Ethno-Juridical Discourse in the Spanish-American War," in Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico, American Expansion and the Constitution, eds. Christina Burnett and Burke Marshall (Duke University Press, 2001) and "New Biographical Evidence on Somerset`s Case," in Slavery & Abolition (2002). He was born and raised in Los Angeles, and is married to Stephanie Kuduk, who teaches 19th-century British literature at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.