David P. Weber
Associate Professor
Biography
Prof. Weber joined the University of Oregon School of Law in 2025. Weber comes to Oregon from Creighton University, where he was a member of the law school’s faculty for 17 years and founded its Sports Law Concentration. He is the current Secretary for the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Sports Law Section.
Weber specializes in sports law with an emphasis on name, image, and likeness (NIL), and legal issues facing international athletes, and he has published, commented, and spoke extensively on topics in the sports law field. His scholarship has appeared in many notable journals, and his work has been cited by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Tennessee Supreme Court, American Law Reports (ALR), and American Jurisprudence (Am.Jur.) among others. He has been cited or quoted in national publications such as The New York Times, ESPN, Time Magazine, Bloomberg, The Athletic, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Yahoo News, and The Associated Press, as well as many local and regional news outlets around the country.
Prof. Weber’s recent scholarship focuses on the NCAA and the evolution of its policy on name, image, and likeness (NIL). Prof. Weber has served as an expert witness on international college athlete matters and advised collectives and collegiate and Olympic athletes on NIL transactions. Prof. Weber has also advised and assisted with federal NIL-related legislation on Capitol Hill on both the House and Senate sides.
Prof. Weber earned his B.A., magna cum laude, from St. John’s University and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Minnesota, where he was co-editor-in-chief of what is now the Minnesota Journal of International Law. He is a member of the Order of the Coif. Prof. Weber teaches Amateur Sports Law, Professional Sports Law, Contracts, and Negotiations. In recognition of his work in the classroom and with students, Prof. Weber is a four-time recipient of an annual award for outstanding professor of the year.
In addition to his scholarship on NIL, Prof. Weber’s other scholarship interests include contracts, immigration, antitrust issues with sports law, and zombie mortgages and real estate.
Prior to joining academia, Prof. Weber worked as an associate at the multinational firm of Fredrikson & Byron, P.A., where he did corporate work including work in foreign and domestic mergers and acquisitions, general corporate counseling, and international real estate development.
Prof. Weber has lived and worked abroad in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, and Nicaragua.
Publications:
The Death of the NCAA as We Know It, 91 Tenn. L. Rev. 837 (2024)
Will the Professionalization of Student-Athletes Kill the NCAA?, 103 B.U. L. Rev. 1591 (2023) with Daniel L. Real
The Abandonment of International College Athletes by NIL Policy, 101 N.C. L. Rev. 1599 (2023) with Victoria J. Haneman
Athletes in Transit: Why the Game is Different in Sports and the Visas Should Be Too, 96 Tul. L. Rev. 893 (2022)
Legal Structures in a Game of Thrones: The Laws of the First Men and Those that Followed, 70 S.C. L. Rev. 209 (2018)
Taxing Zombies: Killing Zombie Mortgages with Differential Property Taxes, 2017 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1135 (2017)
Zombie Mortgages, Real Estate, and the Fallout for the Survivors, 45 N.M. L. Rev. 37 (2014)
Prohibiting the Freedom of Contract: A Fundamental Restriction, 16 Yale Hum. Rts. & Dev. L.J. 51 (2013)
State and Local Regulation of Immigration: The Need for a Bilateral (Reciprocal) Ratchet, 18 ILSA J. Int’l & Comp. L. 707 (2013)
The Magic of the Mortgage Electronic Registration System: It Is and It Isn’t, 85 Amer. Bankr. L.J. 230 (2011) (Peer Reviewed)
(Unfair) Advantage: Damocles’ Sword and the Coercive Use of Immigration Status in a Civil Society, 94 Marq. L.R.613 (2011)
The Intangibles of Payment Stream Stripping: Why Article 9 Should Not Leave You Baring Your Assets (Applying a Common Law Remedy to a Creature of Statute), 79 Miss L.J. 419 (2009)
Halting the Deportation of Businesses: A Pragmatic Paradigm for Dealing with Success, 23 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 765 (2009)
U.S. v. Lara - Delegation of Federal Powers Couched in Terms of Sovereignty and a Relaxation of Prior Restraints, 83N.D. L. Rev. 735 (2007)