Mark Fenster


Mark Fenster is an American lawyer currently the Cone, Wagner, Nugent, Hazouri & Roth Tort Professor at the Levin College of Law at University of Florida. He is the author of The Transparency Fix: Secrets, Leaks, and Uncontrollable Government Information.

Early life and education

Fenster received a bachelor's degree in English in 1985 from the University of Virginia, a master's degree in Radio-Television-Film in 1988 from the University of Texas at Austin, a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Institute of Communications Research in 1992 and a jurist doctorate from Yale Law School in 1998.