FACULTY
Mark E. Steiner
Godwin Lewis PC Research Professor and 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 Constitution 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 Houston
E-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, Texas Pretrial Procedure, and Torts. He has twice been selected as a Fulbright Scholar. In 2011, he taught in the Faculty of Law at the University of Latvia. In 2005 Fulbright Scholar, he taught at the College of Law at National Taiwan University. He also has 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 Marquette Law Review, 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 actively involved in efforts to assist immigrants on the path toward citizenship. He regularly participates in Citizenship and Immigration forums and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival workshops organized by NALEO Education Fund and Neighborhood Centers, Inc.
Steiner is a member of the Houston Blues Society.
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Representative Publications:
The Legal Profession, in A Companion to American Legal History (Blackwell 2013)
Abraham Lincoln and the Rule of Law Books, 93 Marquette Law Review 1283 (2010)
Abe, Esq.: A Docket that Reflects Then and Now, 95 ABA Journal 39 (Feb. 2009)
Internet Resources:
Internet Legal Research (August 2013)
Internet Legal Resources in English
(Shandong University at Weihai, December 2006)
Internet Links for Lawyers
Internet Resources for Labor and Employment Lawyers
Web Resources for American Legal History
Class Materials:
Overview of the Texas Bar Exam
Asian Americans and the Law
Bibliography
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