Mark Weiner
President at Hidden Cabinet Films, Co.
Director and Producer
Hamden, Connecticut
May 2016
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About Mark
Mark S. Weiner is President of Hidden Cabinet Films, a non-profit, 501(c)(3) production company that makes ideas-driven documentary films with a humanistic and historical vision. He is the author of four award-winning books recognized for their contributions to scholarship and their accessible style, including Black Trials: Citizenship From the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), which received a Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association for its impact on the public understanding of law, and The Rule of the Clan: What an Ancient Form of Social Organization Reveals about the Future of Individual Freedom (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), which received the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. He was co-curator of the critically-acclaimed 2017 exhibition "Law’s Picture Books" at the Grolier Club in New York, which was hailed as "fascinating" by The New Yorker, "eye-opening" by the Wall Street Journal, "courageous" by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and "exceptional" by The New Criterion. The exhibit was accompanied by five of Mark's solo, micro-budget films.
Mark is a former tenured professor of constitutional law at Rutgers Law School in Newark, New Jersey. In the fall of 2009, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Akureyri, Iceland; in the spring of 2015, he was a Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Legal Philosophy at the University of Salzburg, Austria; and in 2018-19 he was the the Fulbright Uppsala University Distinguished Chair in American Studies in Uppsala, Sweden. He holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and an A.B. in American Studies from Stanford University.
Unique traits: Long career as award-winning writer and scholar.
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Awards
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Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award, American Association of Law Libraries
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Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order
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Silver Gavel Award, American Bar Association
(2005) -
President's Book Award, Social Science History Association
(2000)
Education
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Yale Law School
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Yale University
(1991-1999) -
Stanford University
(1985-1989)
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