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Sports Law Institute Faculty

Michael McCann

Director and Professor of Law

Michael McCann is one of the nation's foremost experts on sports law. A tenured professor at Vermont Law School and a seasoned sports attorney, McCann is a legal analyst for Sports Illustrated and the "Sports Law" columnist on CNNSI (SI.com). He also teaches a sports law and analytics reading group at Yale Law School —the first sports law and analytics course to be offered at a law school— serves as the Distinguished Visiting Hall of Fame Professor of Law at Mississippi College School of Law, and is the editor-in-chief and publisher of the award-winning Sports Law Blog. McCann has placed sports law review articles in the Yale Law Journal, Boston College Law Review, and Connecticut Law Review, among other notable publications, and has offered sports law commentary on HBO's Bob Costas Now, NPR's Frontline, CNN's The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, American Morning, Headline News, Fox News' Fox Live Desk, Glenn Beck, and CNBC's Morning Call and Power Lunch. McCann served as counsel to college football star Maurice Clarett in his lawsuit against the National Football League and its age eligibility rule (Clarett v. NFL, 369 F.3d 124 [2nd Cir. 2004]; cert. denied, 125 S. Ct. 1728 [2005]) and continues to provide expert advice on various sports law matters. McCann holds degrees from Harvard Law School, the University of Virginia School of Law, and Georgetown University. More...

Cell: 617-875-6132
Email: mmccann@vermontlaw.edu
Twitter: http://twitter.com/mccannsportslaw

 

Brian Porto

Deputy Director and Associate Professor of Law

Brian Porto has been writing about legal issues in sports for more than two decades. His writings focus on the effects of Title IX on college sports and on the relationship between those sports and higher education. His most recent book, The Supreme Court and the NCAA, examines the antitrust and due process consequences for college football and basketball of the United States Supreme Court's decisions in NCAA v. Board of Regents (1984) and NCAA v. Tarkanian (1988), respectively. Porto holds a JD from Indiana University-Bloomington and a PhD. in political science from Miami University (Ohio). Before coming to VLS, he taught political science at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota and practiced law in Vermont. More...

Phone: 802-831-1144
Email: bporto@vermontlaw.edu