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Law Schools that specialize in Sports Law

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While there definitely are many Law Schools in America that allow you to specialize in Sports Law during your 3rd year of Law School, throughout my life, I have heard of three Law Schools that have exceptional Sports Law programs. Those schools are Tulane, Marquette, and Duke. Tulane’s “Sports Lawyers Journal” is known throughout the country as one of the best Sports Law Journals around.

Marquette boasts about its National Sports Law Institute, which is in charge of its “Marquette Sports Law Review,” which is also a prominent Sports Law publication in America.

And last, but definitely not least, is Duke…the Law School of Drew Rosenhaus, and a Law School that will put out many future successful Sports Agents. It has a Sports & Entertainment Law Society, and apparently hosts some of the best Sports Law professors in the country.

It is definitely not necessary to go to a Law School with a strong Sports Law program in order to be a Sports Agent, but by going to such a school, you should gain an extensive background in Sports Law that would help you in any area of the Sports Business world. In fact, as discussed in previous posts, an education in Law is not necessary to become a Sports Agent. Another point to consider is that if you do attend a graduate school, you may want to base that decision somewhat on their sports program. I personally feel, that if you put yourself in the right situation, it is likely that you meet your first client at the school you attend.

I will be adding Law Schools with Sports Law programs to the sidebar of links on the left side of this page.

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By Darren Heitner

Darren Heitner created Sports Agent Blog as a New Year's Resolution on December 31, 2005. Originally titled, "I Want To Be A Sports Agent," the website was founded with the intention of causing Heitner to learn more about the profession that he wanted to join, meet reputable individuals in the space and force himself to stay on top of the latest news and trends.

Heitner now runs Heitner Legal, P.L.L.C., which is a law firm with many practice areas, including sports law and contract law. Heitner has represented numerous athletes and sports agents as legal counsel. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at Indiana University Bloomington from 2011-2014, where he created and taught a course titled, Sport Agency Management, which included subjects ranging from NCAA regulations to athlete agent certification and the rules governing the profession. Heitner serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he teaches a Sports Law class that includes case law surrounding athlete agents and the NCAA rules.

5 replies on “Law Schools that specialize in Sports Law”

University of Texas has a Sports and Entertainment Law society, a very good Sports and Entertainment Law Journal (Texas Review of Entertainment and Sports Law) and a Sports Law course.

Florida Coastal School of Law has a Sports Law Certificate program, one of I believe only 3 in the nation (the others being Marquette and Tulane). It’s excellent, and very hands-on. Courses offered include Professional Sports Law, Amateur Sports Law, a Sports Law Seminar, a Sports Law Workshop, as well s many other applicable course. Entertainment Law is also offered. These classes are taught by former professional athletes and Olympians who are now attorneys and are extremely well-connected.

I definitely agree that a sports law program is not important. I got accepted by Marquette, which was my number one choice at the time, but turned it down because of a scholarship offer from Ohio Northern University. In the end, I never even took the one Sports Law class our school offered. While I absolutely think that a law degree is a huge asset and sports law programs could help, in this business, it’s all about sales!

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