Professor of law and Sidney I. Reitman Scholar (Constitutional Law; History of the Common Law, Free Speech, Church-State Relations, State Constitutional Law)

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 as 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: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship (NYU Press, 2006), was awarded the President's Book Award from the Social Science History Association.

Professor Weiner was named the 2009-2010 Chancellor's Distinguished Research Scholar at Rutgers-Newark. In the fall of 2009, he was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Akureyri, Iceland.