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U.S. Government Agencies
Federal Trade Commission
The FTC is a federal government agency that protects consumers by stopping unfair, deceptive or fraudulent practices and promotes competition by enforcing antitrust laws.
National Labor Relations Board
The NLRB is the federal agency that acts to protect private employees against unfair labor practices.
Patent and Trademark Office
The USPTO is the federal agency responsible for granting patents and registering trademarks.
Sports-Related Organizations
Court of Arbitration for Sport
CAS is an international arbitral body that settles sports-related disputes. Their website includes a searchable database of CAS awards.
Institute for Sports Law, Policy, and Research
The Institute for Sports Law, Policy, and Research at Penn State supports and disseminates research on sports law and policy. Resources available on its website include empirical reports, bibliographies, articles, Congressional publications, and teaching resources.
National Women's Law Center: Title IX Athletes
The National Women's Law Center's Title IX webpage provides information on Title IX, including the law's history, relevant statistics, recent cases, and legislation related to the law.
NCAA
The NCAA web site has NCAA Division I, II, and III Manuals, rule books, sports medicine handbook, and more.
Society of American Baseball Research, Business of Baseball Committee
The committee's mission is to "study all aspects of baseball administration and off-the-field activity including economic, organizational, labor and legal issues." Their web site includes a collection of documents relating to the business of professional baseball.
Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports
The Stark Center on the University of Texas at Austin campus houses an extensive collection of materials on physical culture and sports.
World Anti-Doping Agency
WADA was established in 1999 to coordinate the fight against doping in sport. Its web site has the World Anti-Doping Code, list of prohibited substances, model rules, and guidelines.
ABA Forum on the Entertainment & Sports Industries
The ABA Forum on the Entertainment & Sports Industries serves the needs of lawyers whose clients are in the entertainment and sports industries and those who plan to represent clients in these fields. The Forum's Twitter page links to news and analysis related to entertainment and sports law.
Collegiate & Professional Sports Law Blog
This blog, authored by attorneys at the law firm Jackson Lewis, provides news and analysis of legal issues affecting collegiate and professional sports.
Global Sport Matters
Global Sport Matters is a multimedia content hub that delivers timely information on critical issues affecting sport. It is a joint project of the Arizona State University Global Sport Institute and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
HeinOnline: Sports Law in Law Reviews and Journals (available on campus or remotely with ASURITE)
This resource from the Marquette Sports Law Review provides an index to sports law subject categories (e.g., Antitrust, Constitutional Law, ADR, etc.) and provides the reader with a list of prominent articles published in 2020.
Law360 Sports & Betting (available on campus or remotely with Lexis+ password)
The Law360 Sports page provides coverage of news events related to the intersection of law and sports.
LawInSport
LawInSport provides informal sports law blogs for sports lawyers, governing bodies, clubs, and sports businesses from people within the profession.
SportBusiness
SportBusiness provides a wide variety of sports-related information, including fan insight, rights data, analysis, and news.
Bloomberg Business of Sports
Michael Barr, Scarlet Fu and Damian Sassower follow the money in the world of sports, taking listeners inside decisions that power the multibillion dollar industry.
Conduct Detrimental
Established in 2016, this first-of-its-kind "Sports Law" podcast, is hosted by sports lawyers Dan Wallach & Dan Lust and geared towards sports fans and attorneys, alike.
Sports Business Radio
Sports Business Radio focuses on the issues and people directly impacting the world of sports business. Guests on the show offering an insider's perspective include pro sports league executives, agents, college athletics administrators, sports apparel company reps, ad agency executives, media executives & athletes.
SportsWise
Hosted by Gabe Feldman--Director of the Tulane Sports Law Program and sports industry consultant, this podcast looks at current and breaking stories in the sports world and tells the largely untold (and often misunderstood) legal story behind the headlines.