Education:
J.D., Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California – Berkeley
A.B., University of California – Berkeley

Professor Stephen Ross, one of the nation’s leading sports law and antitrust scholars, joined the Penn State Dickinson faculty from the University of Illinois College of Law. After graduation from the University of California Boalt Hall School of Law, where he was associate editor of the California Law Review, Professor Ross held a variety of positions leading up to his career in teaching. He spent several years in Washington, D.C., as an attorney for the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, clerked for Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and served as minority counsel for the Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. Senate.

Professor Ross is the author of the casebook Principles of Antitrust Law and has published various pieces involving U.S. and Canadian antitrust and competition policies, domestic and international sports antitrust issues, and statutory interpretation, as well as comparative Canadian law. His expert testimony and advice on antitrust issues in the sports arena has been sought by various governmental entities in the U.S. and Canada over the years. Additionally, he has served as pro bono counsel to the Consumer Federation of America on sports antitrust litigation.

Professor Ross is a senior fellow of the American Antitrust Institute and an active participant in the America Bar Association’s Section on Antitrust Law.

Penn State Institute for Sports Law, Policy, and Research

Contact Information:
Email: sfr10@psu.edu
Phone: (814) 865-8995

Comparative Constitutional Law (U.S./Canada)

Professor Ross Appears Before the Senate Commerce Committee — View the webcast

Selected Publications:
"Antitrust and Inefficient Joint Ventures: Why Sports Leagues Should Look More Like McDonald's and Less Like the United Nations,” Marquette Sports Law Journal, 2006.

“The NHL Labour Dispute and the Common Law, the Competition Act, and Public Policy,” University of British Columbia Law Review, 2004.

“Some Outside Observations on Overly Restrictive Agreements and the Souths Rugby Case,” Australian Consumer & Comparative Law Journal, 2004.

“Some Useful Charter Insights for American Equality Jurisprudence,” XXI Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice (2003) (symposium on 20th anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms).

“Location and Limits of Dynamic Statutory Interpretation in Modern Judicial Reasoning,” Issues in Legal Scholarship, 2003. (Boalt Hall faculty journal symposium on dynamic statutory interpretation), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=420500

“Open Competition in League Sports,” with S. Szymanski, Wisconsin Law Review, 2002.

“The Modern Parol Evidence Rule and its Implications for New Textualist Statutory Interpretation,” with D. Tranen, Georgetown Law Journal, 1998.

“The Misunderstood Alliance Between Sports Fans, Players, and the Antitrust Laws,” University of Illinois Law Review, 1997.

“Lessons from the 'True North Strong and Free',” Antitrust Law Journal, 1997. (symposium on Canadian competition law)

Principles of the Law of Antitrust, Foundation Press, 1993.