Biography
Mark Storslee is an associate at Williams & Connolly LLP. He is also an assistant professor at Penn State Law (currently on leave), where he teaches courses on constitutional law, federal courts, and the First Amendment. His research focuses on the First Amendment freedoms of religion and speech, and topics in constitutional law generally. He has published in the University of Chicago Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, The Review of Politics, the Journal of Law & Religion, and other periodicals. He is also a co-editor of Comparative Religious Ethics: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies (Routledge 2014). In 2020, Storslee was awarded the Harold Berman Award for Excellence in Scholarship by the Law and Religion Section of the Association of American Law Schools. In 2021, he received the Penn State Law LLM Teaching Award.
In addition to his other roles, Storslee currently serves as a Nootbar Institute Fellow at the Nootbar Institute on Law, Religion, and Politics at Pepperdine University. He also serves as a McDonald Distinguished Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University School of Law.
Storslee holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Virginia. After law school, he clerked for Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain on the United States Court of Appeals, and later for Associate Justice Neil M. Gorsuch on the United States Supreme Court. Prior to his current academic appointment, he served as executive director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School.
