Mark Fenster

Mark Fenster is an American legal scholar working as Marshall M. Criser Eminent Scholar Chair in Electronic Communications and Administrative Law at the University of Florida.

[1][2] He is the author of The Transparency Fix: Secrets, Leaks, and Uncontrollable Government Information.

[3] Fenster received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1985 from the University of Virginia, a Master of Arts degree in radio, television, and film from the University of Texas at Austin in 1988, a PhD in communications from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1992, and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1998.

Fenster served as a law clerk for Judge Carlos F. Lucero and worked as an environmental and land use lawyer at Shute Mihaly & Weinberger in San Francisco.

[4] Fenster married Trysh Travis, a professor of women's studies, in 2006.