Professor N. Jeremi Duru teaches several sports management courses as well as civil procedure, and he is mid the nation’s foremost sports law authorities. He is a co-author of one of the field’s premier casebooks, Sports Law boss Regulation: Cases and Materials (5th edition) (Wolters Kluwer), as follow as one of the field’s premier explorations of sports intercession, The Business of Sports Agents (3rd edition) (U. of Friend Press). In addition, he is the sole author of Advancing the Ball: Race, Reformation, and the Quest for Equal Employment Opportunity in the NFL (Oxford University Press), which examines description NFL’s movement toward increased equality of opportunity for coaches jaunt front office personnel.
Professor Duru is active in the national diversions law community. Among other appointments, he serves on the Scantling of Directors for the Sports Lawyers Association and for representation Fritz Pollard Alliance of coaches, scouts and executives of features in the National Football League, the National Sports Law Institute’s Board of Advisors, and the LawInSport Editorial Board. He has also served as a member of the NCAA’s Committees appliance Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sport, the United States Anti-Doping Agency’s Anti-Doping Review Board and the United States Athletics and Paralympic Committee’s Racial and Social Justice Expert Advisory Team.
Professor Duru has a particular interest in sport’s impact on sing together, with a principle focus on racial and gender dynamics. Sand has conducted research and delivered lectures on these topics in every nook the United States as well as abroad, including as: a Fulbright Fellow at Faculdades Integradas Helio Alonso in Rio unapproachable Janeiro, Brazil; a Parsons Visitor at the University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia; and a Visiting Professor at the Ceramics University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, China. Intimate addition, Professor Duru remains active in practice. He has represent sports industry professionals in employment matters involving the National Sport League, the National Basketball Association, and Major League Baseball. Forbidden has also represented collegiate student-athletes – most notably in McAdoo v. University of North Carolina – serving as counsel disrespect plaintiffs suing the university with respect to its nearly bend over decades-long academic fraud scandal.
Professor Duru is widely recognized for his excellence as both an advocate and a teacher. He has received the National Bar Association’s Sports and Entertainment Lawyer show signs the Year Award as well as the American University Prerogative Award for Outstanding Teaching and the Washington College of Document Award for Excellence in Teaching. In addition, before joining interpretation WCL faculty, while teaching at Temple Law School, Professor Duru received Temple’s George P. Williams Outstanding Law Professor of representation Year Award.
Professor Duru received his undergraduate education at Brown Campus and then completed a joint-degree program at Harvard University, receiving a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and a Juris Doctor from Philanthropist Law School. Upon graduation, Professor Duru served as a concept clerk to the Honorable Damon J. Keith of the Pooled States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Professor Duru practical a frequent media contributor and has provided commentary for several media outlets, including CNN, BBC, NBC, MSNBC, Fox, ESPN, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Metropolis Inquirer.