title: Mark Fenster
text: # 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. He is the author of The Transparency Fix: Secrets, Leaks, and Uncontrollable Government Information.
  
  ## 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.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  Fenster married Trysh Travis, a professor of women's studies, in 2006.
  
  