Stephen F. Ross
Lewis H. Vovakis Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Professor of Law, and
Director, Penn State Institute for Sports Law, Policy and Research
Education:
J.D., Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California – Berkeley
A.B., University of California – Berkeley
Professor Stephen Ross joined the Penn State Law faculty from the University of Illinois College of Law. After graduation from the University of California Boalt Hall School of Law, where he was associate editor of the California Law Review, Professor Ross held a variety of positions leading up to his career in teaching. He spent several years in Washington, D.C., as an attorney for the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, clerked for Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and served as minority counsel for the Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. Senate.
Professor Ross is the author of the Principles of Antitrust Law (2003) and scholarly works on U.S. and Canadian antitrust and competition policies, domestic and international sports antitrust issues, statutory interpretation, and comparative Canadian law. His recent book, Fans of the Worlds, Unite! (2008), was noted by Wired.com magazine as one of the 12 bright ideas of 2009. Professor Ross has provided expert testimony and advice on antitrust issues in the sports arena to governmental entities in the U.S. and Canada over the years, and he has consulted on sports league design for professional sports organizations in ice hockey, cricket, and motorcycle racing.
Professor Ross is a senior fellow of the American Antitrust Institute and serves as pro bono counsel to the AAI and the Consumer Federation of America on antitrust and sports litigation.
Penn State Institute for Sports Law, Policy, and Research
Comparative Constitutional Law (Australia/Canada/U.S.)
Professor Ross Appears Before the Senate Commerce Committee — View the webcast
Contact Information:
E-mail: sfr10@psu.edu
Phone: (814) 865-8995
Principal Office: University Park
Selected Publications:
Fans of the World, Unite! A (Capitalist) Manifesto for Sports Consumers (2008) (with Stefan Szymanski).
Antitrust and Inefficient Joint Ventures: Why Sports Leagues Should Look More Like McDonald's and Less Like the United Nations, 16 Marq. Sports L. Rev. 213 (2006).
The NHL Labour Dispute and the Common Law, the Competition Act, and Public Policy, 37 U.B.C. L. Rev. 343 (2004).
Some Outside Observations on Overly Restrictive Agreements and the Souths Rugby Case, Austl. Consumer & Comp. L.J. (2004).
Some Useful Charter Insights for American Equality Jurisprudence, 21 Windsor Y.B. Access Just. 227 (2003) (symposium on 20th anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms).
Location and Limits of Dynamic Statutory Interpretation in Modern Judicial Reasoning, Issues in Legal Scholarship (2003) (Boalt Hall faculty journal symposium on dynamic statutory interpretation) available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=420500.
Open Competition in League Sports, 2002 Wisc. L. Rev. 625 (2002) (with Stefan Szymanski).
The Modern Parol Evidence Rule and its Implications for New Textualist Statutory Interpretation, 87 Geo. L. J. 195 (1998) (with Daniel Tranen).
The Misunderstood Alliance Between Sports Fans, Players, and the Antitrust Laws, 1997 U. Ill. L. Rev. 519 (1997).
Lessons from the "True North Strong and Free", 1997 A.B.A. Antitrust L. J. (symposium on Canadian competition law)
Principles of the Law of Antitrust (1993).
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