Gregory Johnson

Professor Gregory Johnson is an expert in sexual orientation and the law, Native Alaskan legal issues, law of Pacific Islands, and appellate advocacy. The courses he has taught at Vermont Law School include Appellate Advocacy, Dispute Resolution, and Sexual Orientation and the Law.

Professor Johnson earned an AB degree from Cornell University in 1982 and a JD degree from Notre Dame Law School in 1985. Upon graduation from law school, he clerked with the Alaska Superior Court and served as staff attorney with the United States Department of Labor in New Orleans. Professor Johnson was a legal research and writing instructor at Saint Louis University School of Law from 1987 to 1988 and at the University of Oregon School of Law from 1988 to 1992. He served as law clerk with the Alaska Supreme Court from 1992 to 1993 and from 1995 to 1996, and as senior court counsel with the Supreme Court of the Republic of Palau from 1993 to 1995. In 1996, he served as an associate specializing in Native Alaskan law with the firm of Middleton & Timme in Anchorage. Professor Johnson has served as special counsel to the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Palau since 1997. He joined the Vermont Law School faculty in 1997. Professor Johnson has made numerous presentations on lesbian/gay civil rights issues, including "The State of the Gay Rights Movement" at Vermont Law School's Sexual Orientation and the Law Conference and "Alaska's Same-Sex Marriage Case" at the Freedom to Marry Conference, Harvard Law School. He testified before both houses of the Vermont legislature when it considered the landmark civil unions bill.