Mark Tushnet

Mark Victor Tushnet ( born November 18, 1945) is an American lawyer, university lecturer and civil rights.

Tushnet studied until 1967 at the Harvard Law School and until 1971 at Yale Law School. Mark Tushnet is faculty member at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, and has lectured for many years at Georgetown University Law Center. He was an assistant to Thurgood Marshall, the first African American judge on the United States Supreme Court and is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

Currently, he is concerned with the criminalization of lies and the excesses of free speech in the United States.

Private life

Tushnet is married to Elizabeth Alexander, whom the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union is launching. Daughter Rebecca is professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, the daughter of Eve is conservative writer and journalist.