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This page is for the benefit of law professors (full-time and adjunct practitioners) and their students. The goal is, over time, to develop this site as a resource for syllabi, course content, and how to teach or explain major cases. The 6th edition of Professor Steve Ross' co-authored casebook, Weiler, Roberts, Abrams, Ross, Harper, Balsam & Berry, Sports and the Law (West Academic) is now available online.
Information about Professor Ross' new book, An Advanced Introduction to Global Sports Law (Edgar Publishing)
Annotations with citations and references forthcoming.
Additional Resources and Links to the Ongoing Webinar Series
Information about the 6th Edition
The new edition reflects substantial revisions, and we hope you share our view that it improves the teaching effectiveness of our casebook. In some instances, our editing has removed cases that some of you may wish to retain. To allow you to easily do so, feel free to share with your students omitted cases from the 5th edition.
Documentary Supplement
In lieu of a hard-copy supplement published in connection with prior editions, we are now making documents available online.
Supplemental Teaching Resources
For those interested in modifying prior work, Professor Ross’ PowerPoint presentations for a general sports law class based on the 5th edition, as well as current slides for a course on global sports law (updating American concepts) are available.
In addition, the following links are to handouts supplementing or updating the material in the Sports and the Law text:
Updates and post-text supplemental material
We plan on continuing, if available, the annual summary of sports law developments presented at the Sports Lawyers Association meeting. The May 2019 report is available here. As other cutting-edge updates occur that warrant class discussion, we will link them below.
Syllabi
Finally, we hope to promote an exchange of ideas among our adopters by sharing syllabi. Here are some different ways to approach the class based on different scheduling and interests.
Supplementary Citations
As noted in the Casebook, we have decided to save costs and space by moving detailed citations of sources from the hard copy to this website. View the supplementary citations document.
We hope you find these materials helpful.
We eagerly invite adopters to share your own syllabus. In particular, we are interested in learning how practitioners who share their own experiences in the classroom incorporate our work. Please email comments, and share your syllabus, by contacting Steve Ross at sfr10@psu.edu.