Dan Markel
Sign in to saveDaniel Eric Markel was a Canadian-born attorney and law professor who wrote various works on retribution in criminal law and sentencing with a focus on the role of punishment in the criminal justice system. He earned a J.D. degree from Harvard University in 2001, and after working as a law clerk to a federal judge and as an associate at a law firm, joined the faculty of Florida State University in 2005.
Dan Markel was a Canadian-born law professor at Florida State University who specialized in studying retribution and punishment in criminal law and sentencing. His work examined how punishment functions within the criminal justice system, and he brought to this scholarship credentials including a Harvard law degree and prior experience as a federal judicial clerk and law firm associate.
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- Born
- 1972-10-09
- Died
- 2014-07-19
- Works
- 1
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- Privilege or punish
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Key dates
- Born
- 9 October 1972
- Died
- 19 July 2014
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Eric
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Toronto
- Place of death
- Tallahassee
- Occupation
- author
- Educated at
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1998–2001)
- Employer
- Florida State University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Number of children
- 2
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- date of death
- 2014-07-19
- date of birth
- 1972-10-09
- manner of death
- homicide
- cause of death
- gunshot wound
- name in native language
- Daniel Eric Markel
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Daniel Eric Markel (October 9, 1972 – July 19, 2014) was a Canadian-born attorney and law professor who wrote various works on retribution in criminal law and sentencing with a focus on the role of punishment in the criminal justice system. He earned a J.D. degree from Harvard University in 2001, and after working as a law clerk to a federal judge and as an associate at a law firm, joined the faculty of Florida State University in 2005.
In 2014, Markel was killed in Tallahassee, Florida, in a murder-for-hire motivated by child custody issues following Markel's divorce from Wendi Adelson, a clinical law professor and child advocate also employed at Florida State University at the time.
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