Brian Porto

Brian Porto joined the Vermont Law School faculty as assistant professor of law in fall 2007. Porto currently teaches Appellate Advocacy and Legal Writing at VLS. He is a practicing attorney and served as judicial clerk to Associate Justice Denise R. Johnson of the Vermont Supreme Court, Judge William I. Garrard of the Indiana Court of Appeals, and Associate Justice William Johnson of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Professor Porto has taught political science at Yankton College in South Dakota, at Macalester College in Minnesota, and at Norwich University in Vermont, and numerous courses as an adjunct professor at community colleges throughout New Hampshire and Vermont. His commentaries about legal and social issues in sports regularly appear on Vermont Public Radio, and he has published extensively. The second edition of his book, May It Please the Court: Judicial Processes and Politics in America, will be published in fall 2008.