Sportswashing and National Identity

Dionne Koller

Director, University of Baltimore Center for Sport and the Law

Koller’s scholarly focus is sports law, particularly in the areas of youth, Olympic and Paralympic, and education-based sports, and she is a frequent media commentator and consultant to state and federal legislatures on issues related to sports and the law. 

In 2021, Koller was appointed by Sen. Maria Cantwell to co-chair the Commission on the State of U.S. Olympic and Paralympics. She also has served as chair and as a member of the executive board for the Sports Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), is a member of the United States Anti-Doping Agency’s Administrative Review Panel, and she is on the editorial board for the International Sports Law Journal. 

Koller was awarded the AALS 2024 award for significant contributions to the field of sports law, and she has also received the University of Baltimore President’s Faculty Award for outstanding achievement in teaching, scholarship and community service, and the UBalt Law James May Teaching Award and Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award. 

Prior to entering law teaching, Koller was an attorney with Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. in Washington, D.C.

Marc Edelman

Law Professor

Baruch College

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcedelman/

Marc Edelman is a tenured Professor of Law at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York, where he writes and teaches on sports law, antitrust law, intellectual property law, and gaming / fantasy sports law. He also serves as the Faculty Athletics Representative for Baruch College.



In addition to his full-time role as a law professor, Professor Edelman is the founder of Edelman Law, where he provides legal consulting and expert witness services to businesses in the commercial sports, entertainment and online gaming industries. Some of Professor Edelman’s recent clients include a Major League Baseball team, the Arena Football League Players Union, and several online fantasy sports providers.



Professor Edelman is regularly cited by the media on a wide range of topics including how the Sherman Act applies to professional sports leagues, how gaming laws apply to fantasy sports contests, and how both labor laws and antitrust laws apply within the college sports industry.



A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and a cum laude graduate of Michigan Law School, Professor Edelman began his professional career by practicing antitrust and sports law with the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom LLP. Thereafter, Professor Edelman has practiced both litigation and transactional law in the sports and intellectual property practice groups at Dewey Ballantine LLP.

John Holden

Associate Professor

Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-holden-81326131b/

Associate Professor at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. Research focus on gambling and college athletics policy.