Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA), a former University of California Irvine law professor whose net worth is estimated to be as high as $2 million, earned thousands of dollars in royalty payments after she required her students to purchase textbooks she authored.
Democrat Rep. Katie Porter , a former University of California Irvine law professor whose net worth is estimated to be as high as $2 million, earned thousands of dollars in royalty payments after she required her students to purchase textbooks she authored.
Another one of her works, “Modern Consumer Law,” a book authored by Porter and released in 2016, was required reading material for Porter’s Consumer Law 5225 class in fall 2017, according to a syllabus for the course. For example, Porter’s 2018 financial disclosure revealed she earned $7,795 in “publishing royalties.” Porter’s 2017 financial disclosure showed between $2,501-$5,000 in royalties from her law textbooks. Porter also reported earning between $201-$1,000 in realties from the Stanford University Press for a book she authored, Fox NewsPorter has continued to earn massive royalty payments while being in Congress, despite not teaching a class at UC Irvine in over four years.
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