Professor Brennan teaches Legal
Analysis,
Legal Writing, and supervises two environmental law
clinics. She has also taught torts.
Professor Brennan was in private practice in Missoula
for eight years after graduating from The University
of Montana School of Law in 1995. She practiced plaintiffs’ personal
injury law, constitutional law, and environmental law.
Reversing the usual order of things, Professor Brennan
then clerked for U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy,
Chief Judge of the District of Montana, from 2003-2004.
Although she grew up in Akron, Ohio, Professor Brennan’s
grandfather haled from Cambridge, Massachusetts, where
he was (according to family lore) the first Irishman
to be admitted to Harvard Medical School. He left Cambridge
for the wild western frontier of Ohio in about 1913,
armed with a pearl-handled revolver given to him by
his sisters as he boarded the train. Ohio was decidedly
more tame by the time Professor Brennan was born, which
is perhaps what motivated her to move further west
after graduating from high school. She came to Missoula
in 1980 (sans the pearl-handled revolver), and now
resides happily in the Rattlesnake with two dogs, two
children, and two horses.
Professor Brennan is admitted to practice in Montana,
the U.S. District of Montana, the Ninth Circuit Court
of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. She
is the secretary of the Judicial Nomination Commission,
and president of the Rattlesnake Elementary School
PTA.
Her publications include:
Jack Tuholske & Beth Brennan, The
National Forest Management Act: Judicial Interpretation
of a Substantive Environmental Statute, 15 Pub.
Land L. Rev. 53 (1994).
Beth Brennan & Matt Clifford, Standing,
Ripeness, and Forest Plan Appeals, 17 Pub. Land L. Rev. 125 (1996).
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