Ed Edmonds

Associate Dean for Library and Information Technology
Professor of Law

Office Number: 214 Law School
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 2006. During the course of his career, Professor Edmonds has served as director of three law school libraries – William and Mary, Loyola-New Orleans, and most recently the founding of the law library at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minnesota. In addition to directing the library and information technology, Professor Edmonds will also teach and write in the areas of legal research and sports law. Professor Edmonds attended Notre Dame as an undergraduate.

LAW60703, Legal Research

LAW73907, Sports Law Seminar

Faculty Expertise Areas

• Entertainment law
• Sports law

Books

Congress and Boxing: A Legislative History, 1960-2003, Co-editor with William Manz, 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.”

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).

Baseball and Antitrust: The Legislative History of the Curt Flood Act of 1998, with Co-editor William Manz, 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

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