Candidates should have strong legal professional backgrounds, with experience in the subject matter and preferably teaching experience. The course will be taught exclusively to enrolled undergraduate students. A PhD or Juris Doctor degree is preferred.

Sports Law (3 units)

This course is designed to familiarize the students with the ways in which the American legal system uses a variety of tools to regulate sports. Areas of law that impact sports include contract law, tort law, statutory law, and constitutional law. This course examines how various areas of law apply to recreational, collegiate, and professional sports. We will emphasize the legal problems and issues faced by professionals in the sport and recreation industry today, including managers and athletes themselves. Students will use critical and analytical thinking to develop a basic understanding of areas of law that affect these industries.