Mark E. Steiner
Professor of Law
“Know your enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant of your enemy and yourself, you are sure to be defeated in every battle."
—Sun-Tzu, The Art of War
The blues have much to do with the vision of the Constitution, primarily because you play the blues to rid yourself of the blues, just as the nature of democracy allows us to remove the blues of government. The blues is a music about human will and frailty, just as the brilliance of the Constitutions that it recognizes grand human possibility with the same clarity that it does frailty."
—Stanley Crouch, "Blues to be Constitutional"
Education
BA, The University of Texas
JD, University of Houston Law Center
Ph.D., University of HoustonE-mail: msteiner@stcl.edu
Phone: 713.646.2904
Office: 615T
Areas of expertise: American Legal History, Torts, Consumer Transactions, and Internet Legal Research
Biography
Mark E. Steiner teaches American Legal History, Consumer Transactions, Internet Legal Research, and Torts. As a 2005 Fulbright Scholar, he taught at the College of Law at National Taiwan University. He has also taught at the University of Houston Law Center and William Mitchell College of Law. He is a former associate editor of the Lincoln Legal Papers.Steiner is the author of An Honest Calling: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln, which was named among the “Best of the Best” for 2007 by the Association of American University Presses and given a superior achievement award by the Illinois Historical Society. His articles about legal education and American legal history have appeared in such journals as the Missouri Law Review, the Journal of Legal Education, Wisconsin International Law Journal, and the Illinois Historical Journal. He frequently presents talks about Lincoln’s legal career before bar, civic, and academic groups.
Steiner is also actively involved in efforts to assist immigrants on the path toward citizenship. He teaches citizenship classes to immigrants seeking naturalization at the Adult Learning Center in Pearland, Texas. Those efforts were recently recognized by USA Freedom Corps, a White House office that promotes volunteer service in America, which gave him a President’s Volunteer Service Award. He also regularly participates at Citizenship and Immigration Forums organized by NALEO Education Fund and Neighborhood Centers, Inc.
Representative Publications:
Abe, Esq.: A Docket that Reflects Then and Now, 95 Aba Journal 39 (Feb. 2009)
An Honest Calling: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln (Northern Illinois University Press, 2006)
- Award of Superior Achievement, Illinois State Historical Society
- “Best of the Best from the University Presses for 2007,” American Association of University Presses
Cram Schooled, 24 WISC. INT’L L. J. 377 (2006)
An Honest Calling:
The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln
(2006)By Mark E. Steiner
Internet Resources:
Internet Legal Research (Winter 2009)Internet Legal Resources in English
(Shandong University at Weihai, December 2006)Internet Resources for Labor and Employment Lawyers
Web Resources for American Legal History
Class Materials:
Overview of the Texas Bar Exam
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