Ed Edmonds

Associate Dean for Library and Information Technology
Professor of Law

Office Number: 3113 Eck Hall of Law
Telephone: 574.631.5916
Fax: 574.631.8154
Email: edmonds.7@nd.edu
Administrative Assistant Teresa A. Welty

Associate Dean Ed Edmonds joined the Notre Dame Law School as director of the Kresge Law Library and professor of law in July 2006. Dean Edmonds is the sixth law library director at the Notre Dame Law School. Dean Edmonds is a 1973 graduate of the University of Notre Dame (A.B. – History), and he graduated with an M.L.S. from the University of Maryland and a J.D. from the University of Toledo. He served as the law library director at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William & Mary, the Loyola University New Orleans School of Law, and the Schoenecker Law Library at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dean Edmonds teaches Legal Research I and Sports Law Seminar, and he has previously taught antitrust law, criminal law, and entertainment law.

Dean Edmonds has been an active participant in professional law library associations. He served as the president of the Southeastern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries (SEAALL) and the New Orleans Association of Law Librarians (NOALL). He is also active in the Association of American Law Schools and has served as the chair of both the Section on Law Libraries and the Section on Sports and the Law. Dean Edmonds is currently the Chair-Elect once again for the Section on Sports and the Law and will serve for the second time as chair in 2010-2011.

Professor Edmonds primary scholarly interests involves antitrust and labor issues involving baseball. In particular, he has written and spoken about the trilogy of United States Supreme Court cases (Federal Baseball v. National League, Toolson v. New York Yankees, and Flood v. Kuhn) that created baseball antitrust exemption. He is the co-editor of the Hein’s Sports Law Legislative History Series and is currently conducting extensive research on baseball salary arbitration.

In recent years, Dean Edmonds has been a regular speaker at the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture and the Annual Spring Training Conference on the Historical and Sociological Impact of Baseball sponsored by Nine: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture.

In the News

• Dean Edmonds published “A Most Interesting Part of Baseball’s Monetary Structure – Salary Arbitration in Its Thirty-Fifth Year,” 20 Marquette Sports Law Review 53 (2010). – January 2010
• Dean Edmonds was quoted regarding the criminal charges facing Washington Wizard’s player Gilbert Arenas in Bill Myers, "Crittenton May Face Grand Jury This Week, Source Says," Washington Examiner – January 10, 2010.
• Dean Edmonds was highlighted on Garrett Broshuis’s blog, Life in the Minors, discussing the Curt Flood Act. Garrett, a pitcher in the Giants minor league system, is interested in labor issues involving minor league baseball players. – January 8, 2010
• Dean Edmonds became chair of the Law and Sports section of the Association of American Law Schools. He chaired the section in 1997-1998. – January 2010
• Dean Edmonds presented at the 21st Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture – June 3, 2009
• Edmonds presented at Widener University School of Law – March 16, 2009
• Edmonds presented at 16th Annual Spring Training Conference on the Historical and Sociological Impact of Baseball – March 13, 2009
• Edmonds presented Major League Baseball’s Salary Arbitration – February 7, 2009
• Edmonds presented at the 20th Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture – June 4-6, 2008
• Edmonds presents at 15th Annual NINE Spring Training Conference on the Historical and Sociological Impact of Baseball – March 15, 2008
• Assoc. Dean Edmonds presented at the Sports Law Scholarship and Teaching Colloquium – September 27, 2007
• Edmonds presented at the 19th Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture – June 6, 2007
• Edmonds presented at 14th Annual NINE Spring Training Conference – March 16, 2007
• New Faculty: Ed Edmonds Home to Build a Library – Notre Dame Lawyer, Fall 2006

LAW60703, Legal Research

LAW73907, Sports Law Seminar

Faculty Expertise Areas

• Entertainment law
• Sports law

Books

Co-editor with Thomas Kettleson and William Manz, Congress and Sports Agents: A Legislative History of the Sports Agent Responsibility and Trust Act (SPARTA), William S. Hein & Co. (2008).

Co-editor with William Manz, Congress and Boxing: A Legislative History, 1960-2003, William S. Hein & Co. (2005). Volume one includes “Congress Finally Lands a One-Two Combination: A Legislative History of the Professional Boxing Safety Act of 1996 and the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act.”

Contributing author. Theater Law: Cases and Materials (Carolina Academic Press 2004).

Cornering the Market: The Yankees and the Interplay of Labor and Antitrust Laws, Chapter 18, Courting the Yankees: Legal Essays on the Bronx Bombers, Ettie Ward, editor, Carolina Academic Press (2003).

Co-editor with William Manz, Baseball and Antitrust: The Legislative History of the Curt Flood Act of 1998, William S. Hein & Co., three volumes (2001). Volume one includes “The Curt Flood Act of 1998: A Congressional Response to Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption.”

Articles

A Most Interesting Part of Baseball’s Monetary Structure – Salary Arbitration in Its Thirty-Fifth Year, 20 Marquette Sports Law Review 53 (2010).

The Impact of Curt Flood’s Minor League Baseball Experiences on His Lawsuit Against Bowie Kuhn, 16 NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture 62 (No. 2 2008).

Architecture Series: The Intellectual Hub of a New Law School: The Schoenecker Law Library Built for the University of St. Thomas School of Law, 8 AALL Spectrum 16 (May 2004).

The University of St. Thomas Law Library: A New Library for a New Era in Legal Education, 13 Trends in Law Library Management and Technology 5 (2002).

The Curt Flood Act of 1998: A Hollow Gesture After All These Years? 9 Marquette Sports Law Journal 315 (1999).

Meet My Mentors-Janet Wallin and Caroline Hariot, 91 Law Libr J. 208 (1999).

Over Forty Years in the On-Deck Circle: Congress and the Baseball Antitrust Exemption, 19 Thurgood Marshall Law Review 627 (1994).

Lectures and Presentations

“The Negro Leagues – Was a Merger Possible?” Panel presentation, "The Integration of Baseball and the Influence of Jackie Robinson Upon the Negro Leagues: Consideration of an Alternative Approach,” Diversity and Sports: The History, The Challenges, and The Future, Dean’s Leadership Forum on Diversity, Widener University School of Law, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, March 16, 2009.

“Major League Baseball Salary Arbitration in 2009,” NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture – 16th Annual Spring Training Conference on the Historical and Sociological Impact of Baseball Tucson, Arizona, March 13, 2009.

“Major League Baseball’s Salary Arbitration,” Hot Stove meeting, Oscar Charleston Chapter (Indianapolis), Society for American Baseball Research, Conner Prairie Museum, Fishers, Indiana, February 7, 2009

“The Great Dodgers Pitching Tandem Strikes a Blow for Salaries: The 1966 Drysdale-Koufax Holdout and Its Impact on the Game,” William M. Simons, editor, The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture: 2007-2008 (2009).
(This paper was originally presented on June 8, 2007 at the Cooperstown Symposium.)

The Enduring Legacy of Curtis Charles Flood: His Courageous Legal Struggle for Personal Dignity