A letter came last week addressed to Professor Steinberg and I was about to write, "Return to Sender," when I realized with shock this Thursday afternoon kicks off a course in "Sports and Entertainment Law" that I've agreed to teach at UC Irvine's School of Law.
While I have spoken on over 75 different campuses over the last 40 years, I have zealously turned down every invitation to commit to an actual teaching responsibility and avoided it like the plague.
So why now?
The legal side of sports has never needed an infusion of idealistic, principled professionals more than now. Dean Erwin Chemerinsky is a shining beacon of legal expertise and vision. He created a law school several years ago with the goal of giving students actual experience with local attorneys and providing them with real life practical experience.