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 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. His latest book is The RUle of the Clan: What an Ancient Form of Social Organization Can Teach us About Modern Law and Culture.

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