Where Dream Careers in Sports Law Take Flight
Destination: Eugene
Oregon Law’s Sports Law Program offers a premier, future-focused legal education at the intersection of athletics, innovation, and industry leadership.
Located within a deeply connected and influential sports ecosystem, our program offers immersive coursework, hands-on experience, and direct access to organizations shaping today’s sports landscape. With more than 500 sports businesses and organizations across Oregon—including Nike, Adidas, and Columbia Sportswear—students are uniquely positioned to learn, network, and launch careers at the center of the sports industry.
Why Oregon Sports Law?
Oregon Law is situated in one of the nation’s most vibrant sports ecosystems, where students benefit from immediate proximity to world-class athletic facilities, elite training environments, and a community actively shaping the future of sport.
Eugene—the beating heart of American track and field and home to the Big Ten’s Oregon Ducks—offers students a one-of-a-kind vantage point into sports governance, compliance, operations, and athlete-centered policy.
Portland extends your professional reach with direct access to major league organizations across the NBA, WNBA, MLS, and NWSL—offering added opportunities for externships, networking, and mentorship across the Pacific Northwest’s pro sports industry.
Sports Law in the Classroom + Beyond
Our curriculum blends doctrinal fundamentals with specialized, practice-based learning—including clinics, externships, and competitions that build advocacy, negotiation, and counseling skills.
Highlighted Courses & Opportunities:
- Amateur & Professional Sports Law
- Antitrust Law
- NIL Transactions
- Sports Licensing
- Business Law Clinic
- Sports Law Externships
- Negotiation, Arbitration & Contract Competitions
Concentration:
Concurrent Degrees:
- JD/MBA
Oregon Summer Sports Law Institute
Join students from across the nation for a transformative, credit-bearing summer experience featuring leading sports law faculty and global industry executives.
You’ll have the chance to participate in exclusive field trips and simulations with in-house counsel while gaining firsthand exposure to MLS, WNBA, NBA, Olympic-qualifying events, and international competitions.
Sports Law LLM
For law graduates and legal practitioners, the Sports Law LLM builds deep expertise in the legal frameworks that drive global sport—contracts, labor, antitrust, intellectual property, and arbitration. You’ll learn to apply legal doctrine directly to how athletes compete, leagues operate, and the sports industry runs. The program prepares you to lead wherever sport and law intersect.
Careers + Connections
A career in sports law sits at the dynamic intersection of business, law, and athletics. Attorneys build their foundation in labor law, contracts, and intellectual property, then use strategic networking and industry insight to position themselves for new opportunities and step directly into the action where it matters most: in the game.
Sports Law Career Paths examples include:
- Sports apparel in‑house counsel
- IP & licensing lawyer
- Team or league counsel
- Athlete representation / Sports agent
- Sports arbitration & mediation
Faculty Spotlight: Professor David P. Weber
Associate Professor David P. Weber, Director of Oregon’s Sports Law Program, is a nationally recognized expert in NIL and international athlete law. His scholarship is cited by federal and state courts and featured in major media outlets, including The New York Times, ESPN, and Bloomberg. He has advised Olympic and collegiate athletes, served as an expert witness, and contributed to federal NIL legislation.
Explore his recent publication: “The Death of the NCAA as We Know It” — a leading analysis of the future of collegiate athletics governance.