Mark Pulliam is a lawyer and writer living in east Tennessee. A graduate of the University of Texas School of Law, Mark practiced law in California for 30 years with a large law firm, where he was recognized as one of the Best Lawyers in America. Mark now writes, mainly on legal topics, for a variety of publications. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, National Review, City Journal, American Greatness, The American Spectator, the Federalist, The American Thinker, and many other publications. He is a contributing editor to Law and Liberty.
Mark got started writing while in law school, where he was an articles editor of the Texas Law Review. He continued to pursue this interest even while in private practice, co-authoring two legal treatises and writing articles in the Labor Law Journal, the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Constitutional Commentary, the Wake Forest Law Review, and other scholarly publications—all long before the advent of the digital age. In the early 1990s, Mark had an epiphany when a letter to the editor he wrote to the Los Angeles Times was quoted in a published Ninth Circuit decision, Klarfield v. United States, 962 F.2d 866, 871 (9th Cir. 1992) (Kozinski, J., dissenting). The lesson appeared to be that writing for popular audiences was Mark’s true calling.
Accordingly, in the 1990s Mark turned primarily to commentary in newspapers and opinion journals. From 1995 through 1998, he wrote a monthly column for the S.D. Daily Transcript, the local legal newspaper, entitled “Politically Incorrect.” From 1993 through 2003, he wrote a regular column for California Political Review, as that journal’s legal issues correspondent. Again, this predated the digital age. Some of his CPR columns are archived in PDF format at The Unz Review (www.unz.org).
Mark’s commentary and essays have appeared in newspapers across the country, Reason, The Freeman, as well as now-defunct magazines such as Policy Review and The American Enterprise. His interests include music, which he has written about in the San Diego Troubadour, Texas Music, No Depression, and Lone Star Music.
Mark can be contacted at markspulliam [at] gmail.com.
