Mark Fenster
{{short description|American academic and lawyer}}
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{{Infobox academic
| name = Mark Fenster
| discipline = Communication studies
Law
| sub_discipline = Administrative law
| workplaces = University of Florida Levin College of Law
| education = University of Virginia (BA)
University of Texas at Austin (MA)
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (PhD)
Yale University (JD)
| spouse = {{marriage|Trysh Travis|2006}}
}}
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.{{Cite web |url=https://www.law.ufl.edu/faculty/mark-fenster |title=Mark Fenster |publisher=ufl.edu |accessdate=May 12, 2017}}{{Cite web |url=https://lawweb.colorado.edu/files/vitae/fenster.pdf |title=CV |publisher=colorado.edu |accessdate=May 12, 2017}} He is the author of The Transparency Fix: Secrets, Leaks, and Uncontrollable Government Information.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/story/wikileaks-donald-trump-jr-twitter/|title=Donald Trump Jr. and WikiLeaks Talking Privately on Twitter Makes Perfect Sense|magazine=Wired|access-date=2020-02-09|language=en|issn=1059-1028}}
Early life and education
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.
Career
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. He joined the University of Florida Levin College of Law in 2001.{{Cite web |title=Mark Fenster |url=https://www.law.ufl.edu/faculty/mark-fenster |access-date=2023-01-31 |website=Levin College of Law |language=en}}
Personal life
Fenster married Trysh Travis, a professor of women's studies, in 2006.{{Cite news |date=2006-03-12 |title=Trysh Travis and Mark Fenster |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/fashion/weddings/trysh-travis-and-mark-fenster.html |access-date=2023-01-31 |issn=0362-4331}}
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