Professor of Law and Sidney I. Reitman Scholar. (Constitutional Law; Legal History; Professional Responsibility.) 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 yearlong fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for Black Trials. His latest book, Americans without Law: A History of Race, Anthropology, and Citizenship (NYU Press, 2006), was awarded the President's Book Award from the Social Science History Association. 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, CT.