About Mark
Mark Storslee draws on an uncommon combination of legal training and advanced work in ethics and religious studies. He holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies (Ethics) from the University of Virginia. His academic path began with a B.A. in Religion and Classics from Furman University and continued through an M.A. from the University of Edinburgh and an M.T.S. in Ethics from Duke University Divinity School.
After law school, Storslee served as a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. That clerkship came immediately after he completed his J.D. in 2015 and placed him at the center of federal appellate work early in his career. In 2016 he returned to Stanford, taking a staff role at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center where he worked on programs and scholarship tied to constitutional doctrine and public law.
Storslee moved into academia as a law professor. He joined Penn State Law as an assistant professor in 2019. His teaching and scholarship sit at the intersection of constitutional law, legal ethics, and religion. He has approached questions about how religious commitments and ethical theory shape legal reasoning. His background in both divinity studies and legal training gives him a broad frame for exploring those issues.
Colleagues and students describe him as a deliberate scholar who favors close reading of constitutional text alongside historical and theological sources. In classrooms he pairs doctrinal analysis with ethical inquiry. He has taught courses that examine the structure of constitutional rights, the role of religion in public life, and professional responsibility for lawyers. His work engages doctrinal questions as well as the normative arguments that underlie them.
Outside the classroom, Storslee has been involved in law center programming and public events that bring scholars, practitioners, and students into conversation. His earlier role at Stanford’s Constitutional Law Center included organizing workshops and supporting faculty research. The trajectory of his career moves from clerking at the federal appellate level to law center administration, and then into full-time teaching and scholarship.
As of 2026, he is on the faculty at Penn State Law. He continues to teach, write, and present on constitutional law, religious liberty, and legal ethics. His current practice is focused on scholarship and teaching in those areas.
