Mark S. Weiner teaches constitutional law and legal history at Rutgers School of Law in Newark, New Jersey. He is the author of "Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste", recipient of the Silver Gavel Award of the American Bar Association; and "Americans without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship", recipient of the President s Book Award of the Social Science History Association. He lives with his wife in Connecticut.