Professor Porrata-Doria graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974 and received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1977. He also holds an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. After graduation, Professor Porrata-Doria practiced law in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Miami, Florida.
Professor Porrata-Doria joined the Temple faculty in 1983 as a Visiting Assistant Professor. He became an Associate Professor in 1988 and was promoted to Professor in 1992. He became a James E. Beasley Professor in 2026. His courses include Business Associations, Securities Regulation, Mergers and Acquisition, International Commercial Transactions, Contracts, Contract Remedies, Advanced Corporate Law, Law of the European Union, International trade and Investment, Advanced Securities Regulation, Spanish for Lawyers and other courses in the international and business law areas. A list of his publications is available on his publications page.
Professor Porrata-Doria has an extensive record of service at the University and Law School levels and is currently Immediate Past President of the Temple University Faculty Senate.
He has been a visiting professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Inter-American University of Puerto Rico, LUISS Guido Carli University (Rome), Rutgers-Camden Law School and Pontificia Universidad Comillas (Madrid). He has also taught at the Lauder Institute of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, as well as in Temple’s Summer Sessions Abroad Program in Rome and at the University of Athens, Greece. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the American Law Institute and the Senate of Pennsylvania.
Professor Porrata-Doria is a life member of the American Law Institute and a Corresponding Member of the Puerto Rico Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation, an affiliate of Spain’s Real Academia de Jurisprudencia y Legislación.
Professor Porrata-Doria has also served on the boards of numerous non-profit organizations throughout the nation and the world. He is currently Vice-Chair of the Hispanic Association of Contractors and Enterprises, a Philadelphia economic development organization, and past Chair of the Association of Yale Alumni and the Eagleville Foundation. He has received several awards for his service.