Brian Vukadinovich

Brian Vukadinovich is a retired teacher and basketball coach in Indiana and has served as executive director of The Posner Center of Justice for Pro Se’s based in Chicago, Illinois. He has successfully represented himself in state and federal court proceedings in Indiana, including winning a federal jury verdict against his former public school corporation employer in Indiana in March 2016 for violating his due process rights in a five-day trial where he represented himself against the corporation’s team of lawyers. He has received national acclaim for his self-representation ability. Vukadinovich is considered to be the leading pro se litigant in the country as he is believed to be the only person to have ever won a federal civil rights jury trial by representing himself without a lawyer. He is considered to be the foremost expert in the country in the art of pro se litigation – the ability to represent oneself – and has spoken on the topic in several different forums and interviews, including speaking to a Yale Law School class about how he was able to successfully represent himself and win the federal civil rights jury trial against his former public school corporation employer.

Vukadinovich is very passionate about social justice issues and the federal judiciary’s indifference to people’s civil rights claims. He is the author of the books "Motion for Justice: I Rest My Case" and "Rogues in Black Robes," and has written several op-eds on social justice and judicial unfairness issues, which have been published by the Washington Examiner, Kansas City Star, Miami Herald and several other major newspapers. His books are on the shelves of several public libraries in different states and also on the shelves of several prominent law school libraries including Harvard, Yale and University of Syracuse law schools, and also abroad on the shelves of libraries in the United Kingdom, Japan and Israel. In September 2019, Vukadinovich did a book signing in El Paso, Texas to support the #ElPasoStrong campaign just after the tragic shooting massacre at the El Paso Walmart.

Vukadinovich has been a featured guest on the television program "Pro Se Nation" based in Princeton, New Jersey, and also a featured guest of Megan Fox on her podcast show The Fringe with Megan Fox, "Episode 54: Secret Courts and Judicial Misconduct with Author Brian," and also a featured guest on a prominent podcast out of England hosted by British podcaster Richard Vobes where the interview was titled "Judicial Corruption in America." Vukadinovich was a featured guest for the 2022 Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration event hosted by Indiana University Social Justice Conference where his topic was titled "Standing Up for One's Civil Rights with Brian Vukadinovich." His blog is rated in the Top 10 Anti-Corruption Blogs in the United States by Feedspot from thousands of blogs on the web.