"The Center for Sport and the Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law was established in 2009 with the support of the Baltimore Orioles professional baseball franchise and the Baltimore Ravens professional football franchise. The Center's goals are to foster academic leadership, community engagement, and student excellence in the theoretical and practical aspects of amateur and professional sports law.
The Center...sponsors academic symposia, generates scholarship and engages in community partnerships that serve to provide students, the legal community, and amateur and professional sports stakeholders with an enhanced understanding of the legal structures and institutions that shape various athletic contexts, including recreational, interscholastic, intercollegiate, professional, and the Olympic movement." (Center's website)
Legal issues related to sports revolve around a number of areas of law, ranging from labor law to contracts to torts to intellectual property and others, so secondary sources are often the best place to begin when researching a sports law question. These secondary sources will point researchers to relevant statutory and case law.
HeinOnline's Business of Legal Aspects of Sports and Entertainment (BLASE) presents a comprehensive treatment of sports and entertainment. Featuring the topical arrangement of more than 8,000 scholarly articles, it also offers federal and state documents, full-text books, a selective bibliography, topically arranged external links, archives from the National Sports Institute of Marquette University, and materials on the Athlete Agents Act.
