Mark A. Graber, JD, PhD, MA
University System of Maryland Regents Professor
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Mark Graber has taught at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law since 2002 and is recognized as one of the leading scholars in the country on constitutional law and politics. In 2004, he was appointed professor of government and law at Maryland Carey Law, a title he held until 2015, when he was named the Jacob A. France Professor of Constitutionalism.
In 2016, he was named a University System of Maryland (USM) Regents Professor, becoming the seventh USM Regents Professor in history and the first at a University of Maryland, Baltimore school. The honor, bestowed by the USM chancellor, recognizes the exceptional academic and teaching achievements of professors within the system.
Professor Graber also served as Maryland Carey Law’s associate dean for research and faculty development from 2010 to 2013, and he helps organize the annual Constitutional Law “Schmooze,” which has grown to be nationally acknowledged as the leading conference for constitutional scholars who work at the intersection of law, political science, and history. In 2023, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association. In 2025, Graber received the Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation Guggenheim Fellowship in Constitutional Studies.
Graber has held faculty positions at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the University of Texas, and he has been a visiting professor at Harvard University, Yale University, Wesleyan University, the University of Virginia, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Toronto, the University of Oregon, the University of Milan in Italy, and Reichman University in Israel.
Among the courses he teaches at Maryland Carey Law are Comparative Constitutional Democracy Colloquium; Comparative Constitutional Law Seminar; Comparative Fundamental Rights Protection; Constitutional Law I: Governance; Constitutional Law II: Individual Rights; First Amendment Seminar; and Special Topics in Comparative Constitutional Democracy.
Graber has written hundreds of articles and book chapters and authored, edited, or co-edited 17 books. He wrote “A New Introduction to American Constitutionalism” and “Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil,” and was co-editor of “Constitutional Democracy in Crisis”; “American Constitutionalism: Structures and Powers”; and “American Constitutionalism: Rights and Powers.” His most recent book, “Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform After the Civil War,” was published in 2023.
He also is actively involved in multiple professional organizations in the fields of law and political science, including the American Political Science Association, Law and Society, the American Society for Legal History, and the American Association of Law Schools.
Graber earned his bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Dartmouth College, his master’s in philosophy and PhD in political science from Yale, and his Juris Doctor from Columbia University.
