  Matthew J. Mitten - Professor of Law and Director, National Sports Law Institute
E-mail: matt.mitten@marquette.edu
Phone: (414) 288-7494
Professional Memberships:
Sports Lawyers Association Board of Directors
American Association of Law Schools' Law and Sports Section
American Bar Association's Entertainment and Sports Law
Courses Taught This Session:
Other Courses Taught:
Antitrust, Legal Profession, Sports Law, Torts
Biography:
Professor Mitten is the Director of the National Sports Law Institute and the LL.M. in Sports Law program for foreign lawyers at Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He served as the Law School’s Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from July 2002 to June 2004. He currently teaches courses in Amateur Sports Law, Professional Sports Law, and Torts and has also taught Antitrust Law, Comparative Sports Law, International Sports Law, Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility, and a Sports Law seminar.
Professor Mitten earned a B.A. in Economics from The Ohio State University and his JD, magna cum laude, from the University of Toledo College of Law. He is a member of the Order of the Coif and served as a Note & Comment Editor for the University of Toledo Law Review’s editorial board. He practiced antitrust and intellectual property law with Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP in Atlanta, Georgia from 1984-1989. He taught at South Texas College of Law in Houston from 1990-1999 and has been a visiting professor at the University of Toledo College of Law as well as a visiting lecturer in sports medicine at The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine. Matt has been appointed a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School in Australia and is a member of the International Advisory Board for its Graduate Diploma in Sports Law program. He has also taught sports law courses at the University of Barcelona in Spain and the University of Queensland in Australia.
Professor Mitten has co-authored a textbook titled Sports Law and Regulation: Cases, Materials, and Problems (Aspen Publishers, Inc. 2005). A leading sports law scholar, he has published articles in the Iowa, Maryland, Marquette, New England, Pittsburgh, St. John’s, St. Louis, Nebraska, Seton Hall, and South Texas law reviews as well as in The New England Journal of Medicine.
In August 2003 he testified before a Congressional joint subcommittee regarding proposed federal regulation of ephedrine. He has given lectures and presentations about a wide variety of sports law topics at numerous conferences and seminars throughout the United States as well as in Australia, China, and the Republic of Korea.
Professor Mitten is a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Lausanne, Switzerland), the American Arbitration Association’s Olympic Sports Arbitration Panel, the LPGA’s Drug Testing Arbitration Panel, and the Sports Lawyers Association’s Board of Directors as well as an Executive Member of the International Academy of Sportslaw Practitioners & Executives. He has been appointed to the Advisory and Editorial Board for The NCAA Scholarly Colloquium on College Sports by NCAA President Myles Brand. He formerly chaired the American Association of Law Schools’ Section on Law and Sports and the NCAA’s Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports.
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