Mark E. Brandon

Mark E. Brandon was born in Georgia and grew up in Birmingham, Alabama.[2] He graduated from the University of Montevallo.[3] He earned a JD from the University of Alabama School of Law, followed by a master's degree from the University of Michigan and a PhD from Princeton University.[3]

Brandon was "an assistant attorney general for Alabama from 1978-1980, a staff attorney and consumer unit coordinator for Legal Services Corp. and has worked with private firms in Alabama and Michigan."[2]

Brandon taught political science at the University of Michigan and the University of Oklahoma.[2] He was a professor of Law and Political Science at the Vanderbilt University Law School until July 1, 2014, when he became the dean of the University of Alabama School of Law.[2][3]

Brandon is the author of two books.

• Brandon, Mark E. (1998). Free in the World: American Slavery and Constitutional Failure. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691015811. OCLC 260098271.
• Brandon, Mark E. (2013). States of Union: Family and Change in the American Constitutional Order. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 9780700619238. OCLC 864561870.