Sports and the Law Professor: A Hearty Farewell
To: Attorneys All
From: Marc Edelman
Re: A Hearty Farewell
Dear Friends:
Today marks the end of my six-month externship as sports editor at Above the Law. On Monday, August 18, I will begin the next stage of my career as a visiting assistant professor at Rutgers School of Law in Camden, NJ. I will also continue my current affiliation with the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School.
During my brief stint as your sports law blogger, I enjoyed the opportunity to interact with many readers. To those of you that have reached out, thanks. It has been a pleasure to exchange ideas and share advice on breaking into the sports industry.
To David Lat, thanks as well for taking a leap of faith and inviting me, as an academic, to guest blog on your self-described “tabloid.” I know not all of our experiments worked perfectly (see, e.g., Monday Morning Quarterback); however, more often than not, the readership survived their traditional and sensationalist worlds colliding.
For those wishing to stay in touch, the best way to reach me is via email at either MarcEdel at camden dot rutgers dot edu or Marc at MarcEdelman dot com.
All the best,
M.E.
P.S. For one final time … take it away, Statler and Waldorf.
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Marc Edelman is an attorney, business consultant, published author and professor, whose focus is on the fields of sports business and law. You can read his full bio by clicking here.
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This post deserves the Drudge siren.
Congrats, Edelman! You will be missed.
Best of luck. Go RU!
And the blogosphere far and wide uttered a sigh in unison: "Finally."
The Rutgers students are very lucky.
To have him, I mean. They're not very lucky in the general sense, unless they're at the top of their class or lottery winners.
1. Edelman
2. Alex
3. Marin
4. Sophist
5. Frolic
6,243. Barack Obama
You are a good guy, Edelman. Good luck.
The chutzpah of this guy (and the ignorance of Lat) is amazing. Edelman was an adjunct at a FTT, and now is a visitor at Rutgers. Visitor can mean many things but when a school take someone from outside the academy, such as Edelman, it usually has a particular curricular need and rents a person for a year (think Mark Texeira's trade to the Angels, since Edelman is a sports commentator). This type of position has more status than school crossing-guard, but not a whole lot more.
10: Any law professor position is prestigious. These jobs are extremely difficult to snag, much less for any non-Yale graduate.
If this guy's sports stories were half as interesting as the sports-related legal stories posted by Kash, I'd feel sad about losing him. But since he annoyed me and his sports writing sucked, I'm glad to see this unfruitful branch trimmed from the ATL tree.
10: what type of state law school, besides UVa and Michigan and Boalt and possibly UCLA, requires a sports law professor for a year? It's such a rarefied field and few of those students are going to be competitive enough for it.
1. Edelman
2. Alex
3. Marin
4. Sophist
5. Frolic
6,243. Barack Obama
4,523,698. Lolcats
10 - you're a tool and a hater. get back to reviewing documents.
Enjoyed the sports law features, but the graphic still sucks.
13: UPenn State.
What does a visiting assistant prof. get paid at Rutgers?
Hey 10- You ARE a Dick. Nice teaching gig you have, too
Look at Edelman's academic bio - he has a lot of publications. He is not just some practitioner who is teaching one course as an adjunct.
Is Barack Obama still a terrorist?
visiting assistant professor usually means an untenured one to two year trial run. schools hire a bunch of them each year and give them a chance to publish and write, then offer tenure to a few of them. every full prof starts as a VAP or something similar.
GO RUTGERS!
And recall, Rutgers Camden is sending a recent alum of the law school to clerk for one of the berobed members of every ATLer's favorite august judicial body. That's right, 1 First Street will soon serve as the year-long home of Rutgers' favorite daughter, Claire "EPIC GPA" Evans.
See
http://www.abovethelaw.com/2007/11/supreme_court_clerk_hiring_wat_7.php
11:30 and nothing interesting.
Give me some Hope Winters! Or let me write a fictional story with no details and a lame ending.
And speaking of Rutgers...Schiano should have upgraded to the T14 when he had the chance. Now he'll forever be stuck in Jersey.
DEUCHEBAG
22: how did she earn that epic GPA? Was she an amazingly perceptive issue spotter? Did she use a particular supplement? Is she so articulate it makes you hurt?
21: Partially right and partially wrong. Schools with formal VAP programs often do not hire their VAPs. The purpose is to give them a year or two to write before they go on the hiring market. Not every full prof starts as a VAP. Not even close. They might start as assistant professors, but those are tenure-track. A VAP is not a tenure-track position.
Rather than spew unfounded insults, some of the haters commenting here should work on their self esteem issues. Taking the time to volunteer at ATL, publish articles and teach law students for pennies is commendable and I venture to guess that none of the haters are doing anything remotely comparable. And Marc's degree with honors from a top law school and tenure practicing sports law at an elite NYC firm should be good enough for anyone writing comments on this website.
26,
She was and remains, all of the above.
And, I'm not embarrassed to admit that Claire drank my milkshake on several occassion (because she has the straw to do it to anyone who crosses her path).
Look out SCOTUS!
13-- Joe PA!! UPenn State! HAHAHAHAHA! did you just think of that? OMG lulz!! btw-- if anyone is interested-- big party for my 21st friday night at Katwalk NYC!!! Joe Pa!!!
Edelman on sports legal topics = one of the better non-Lat/Kash bloggser on ATL
Edelman on general sports topics = Billy Merck
Edelman on sports legal topics = one of the better non-Lat/Kash bloggers on ATL
Edelman on general sports topics = Billy Merck
Whatever happened to the ol' Merckster?
Edelman is only one of eleven visiting professors at Rutgers next year, and his appointment is at the rank of visiting "assistant," not "associate" professor. Most schools don't even have the assistant rank anymore. Most of Rutgers' other visitors are associate professors. (the Newark school - the good Rutgers law school - doesn't use visitors.) The School could be starting a sports law course (but not a program - only Duke has that), just to fill a curricular demand, since Rutgers (the University not just the law school), sees itself as the next big time jock school in the country, up there with Michigan, UCLA, Stanford, UVa, West Virginia, and the like. (If it decided to create the course for curricular reasons it makes sense that it would put it in Camden. That way it doesn't junk up the Newark curriculum. Newark is a good place.) Rutgers' President is the athletic program's biggest booster (very unusual for a serious academic), and the School is in the middle of a major corruption scandal involving under-the-counter payments to the AD and bribes by contractors related to the contract to build the new football stadium. It sounds as if the School has made the jump to big time athletics already. Non-jobs for players at booster owned automobile dealerships can't be far behind. When JoPa gets kicked out of western pennsylvania maybe he can move to the eastern part of the state and become Rutgers' new AD (it already has a better football coach). Edelman could have him as a guest lecturer, that is, if JoPa was willing to go to Camden.
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I find it interesting that you'd claim Rutgers Newark was the "good" one. Aside from the fact that both are tied at 77 in the lastest rankings (TTT), this is the first year in a while that Camden has not been ranked higher than Newark. In 2007, Camden was ranked 65 to Newarks 80.
Then again, this argument is kind of silly given that both have a ranking of 77.
Newark is filled with predatory, drug-dealing murderers. Camden is filled with students and prisoners.
Advantage, Camden.
Marc's pure sports commentary was sadly misinformed. But, he seems to have realized this, so I'll grant him a mulligan there. His sports legal commentary was decent and has improved recently. This is a tough crowd, so I'll wish him luck.