Mark R. Killenbeck

Killenbeck, Mark

Wylie H. Davis Distinguished Professor of Law

A.B., J.D., Ph.D.

Email: mkillenb@uark.edu
Phone: (479) 575-4358
 

Professor Mark Killenbeck has been at the School of Law since 1988. He teaches constitutional law, the First Amendment, legal history, and federal jurisdiction.

He earned his undergraduate degree from Boston College, majoring in English literature, a subject he subsequently taught at the University of Kansas. He earned both his J.D. and Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska, where he also spent 13 years in central administrative positions.

Professor Killenbeck is the author of numerous books, chapters, articles, and papers, with a special focus on federalism, American constitutional history, and affirmative action and diversity. His articles have appeared in a number of major national law journals, including the Supreme Court Review, California Law Review, Michigan Law Review, and Hastings Law Journal.

Professor Killenbeck's most recent book, M'Culloch v. Maryland: Securing a Nation, was published in 2006 by the University Press of Kansas. His assessment of the Supreme Court's 2003 affirmative action decisions, Affirmative Action and Diversity: The Beginning of the End? Or the End of the Beginning?, was published in 2004 by the Educational Testing Service in their Policy Information Perspective series. He was recently asked to write a chapter on the subject of “Affirmative Action and the Courts: From Plessy to Brown to Grutter, And Back?” which will appear in Legal Decision Making in Everyday Life: Controversies in Social Consciousness (Springer Publishing Company, June 2007).

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