Mark Fenster
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.A., University of Texas at Austin
B.A., University of Virginia
Biography
Mark Fenster joined Brooklyn Law School as a Visiting Professor of Law in the fall 2024 semester. As a legal scholar, his research has focused on nondisclosure agreements, government transparency, legal intellectual history, and constitutional limits on government regulation. Professor Fenster is the author of two books: The Transparency Fix: Secrets, Leaks, and Uncontrollable Government Information (Stanford University Press, 2017), and Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture, 2nd ed. (University of Minnesota Press, 2008). His articles and essays have appeared in the California Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, Administrative Law Review, among others.
Prior to his current role, Professor Fenster has been on the faculty of the University of Florida Levin College of Law (UF Law) since 2001, currently as Professor of Law and Marshall M. Criser Eminent Scholar Chair in Electronic Communications and Administrative Law. Prior to working at UF Law, Professor Fenster clerked for Judge Carlos F. Lucero of the Tenth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Denver and worked in private practice in San Francisco as an environmental and land use law fellow at Shute Mihaly & Weinberger.
He is admitted to practice law in New York and California.