David L. Markell

Steven M. Goldstein Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Florida State University
College of Law
Room 322
Phone: (850) 644-7692
Fax: (850) 644-5487
dmarkell@law.fsu.edu

Education
J.D., University of Virginia, 1979
B.A. Brandeis University, 1975

Professor Markell is active in the areas of international and domestic environmental and administrative law. He is currently a member of the Organization of American States (OAS) Department of Sustainable Development Environmental Law Advisory Group and a Special Legal Advisor to the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) Secretariat. Professor Markell's past professional experience includes service as the first Director of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) citizen submissions process, as Acting Deputy Commissioner for the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Office of Environmental Remediation and Director of the DEC Division of Environmental Enforcement, as an attorney with the United States Department of Justice's Environmental Enforcement Section and with the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and as a mediator and expert witness.

Widely recognized for his scholarship involving environmental and administrative law and policy, Professor Markell has co-authored or co-edited five books and published numerous articles. He is co-author of a leading environmental casebook, Environmental Protection: Law and Policy, (Glicksman, Markell, Buzbee, Mandelker, and Tarlock) (Aspen Law & Business, 5th ed., 2007, and 4th ed. 2003). Other books include Reinventing the State/Federal Relationship in Environmental Enforcement (Environmental Law Institute 2003) (co-authored with Professor Clifford Rechtschaffen), and Greening NAFTA: The North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Stanford University Press 2003, co-edited with Professor John Knox), a book on North American environmental governance.

Three of Professor Markell's publications have received special recognition. "Improving State Environmental Enforcement Performance through Enhanced Government Accountability and Other Strategies," 33 Envtl. L. Rep. 10559 (2003) (co-authored with Clifford Rechtschaffen), was selected as one of the best environmental and land use law articles published in 2003, from more than 400 articles originally identified for possible selection. "The Role of Deterrence-Based Enforcement in a 'Reinvented' State/Federal Relationship: The Divide Between Theory and Reality," 24 Harvard Environmental Law Review 1 (2000), similarly was selected as one of the best environmental and land use law articles published in 2000. New York State Administrative Procedure and Practice (West Publishing) (co-authored with Professor Patrick Borchers) received the 1995 ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Award for Scholarship, and was cited as "the most outstanding work of legal scholarship in the field" published during that year.

Prior to being joining the faculty at Florida State University College of Law in 2002 as the Steven M. Goldstein Professor, Professor Markell taught at Albany Law School and as a visitor at the law school at Lewis and Clark College .