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Walter T. Champion
George Foreman Professor of Law
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Phone:(713) 313-4474
Email: wchampion@tmslaw.tsu.edu
Joined the faculty in 1984.

Additional Biographical Information

• Associate Professor, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston TX (1990-1993)
• Assistant Professor and Law Librarian, Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston TX (1984-1990)
• Judicial Clerk, Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia, PA (1983-1984)
• Law Librarian, Villanova University School of Law, Villanova, PA (1981-1984)
• Legal Writer, Pennsylvania Law Journal-Reporter, Philadelphia, PA (1981-1984)
• Law Clerk, Cozen, Begier & O'Connor, Philadelphia, PA (1980)
• Legal Editor, American Law Institute, Philadelphia, PA (1977-1980)
• Librarian, Office of Aging, Philadelphia, PA (1977)
• Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA (1975-1976)
• Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL (1973-1975)

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Publications

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• SPORTS LAW IN A NUTSHELL, (4th ed. 2009).
• SPORTS LAW:  CASES, DOCUMENTS, AND MATERIALS (2005).

       Selected Presentations

• Various lectures and conferences on Sport & Entertainment Law, Champion Sports Enterprises, 1994
• Various speeches and radio appearances on Sports Law

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Law Review Articles

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• The Life and Times of Napolean Beazley:  The Effect (if Any) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on Texas' 17 & up Execution Standard, 28 T. MARSHALL L. REV. 1 (2002) (with Hurdle, Ronald B.).
  
• Trade Dress as the Only Club in the Bag to Protect Golf Club manufacturers from "Knock-Offs" of their Prized Boutique Golf Clubs, 3 TEX. REV. ENT. & SPORTS L. 43 (Spr. 2002) (W/Burleson).
  
• The Great Dodgers-Wrigley Field Melee: A Bar Exam Question in the Making?, 2 TEX. REV. ENT. & SPORTS L. 43(2001).
  
• The Evolution of a Standard of Care for Injured College Athletes: A Review of Kleinknecht and Progeny, 1 VA. J. SPORTS & L. 290 (1999).
  
• A Critical Look at the So-Called Locker Room Mentality as a Means to Rationalize the Drug Testing of Student Athletes, 4 VILL. SPORTS & ENT. L. J.  (1997).
  
• Attorneys QUA Sports Agents: An Ethical Conundrum, 7 MARQ. SPORTS L. J. 349 (1996).
  
• The Baseball Antirust Exemption Revisited: 21 Years after Flood v. Kuhn, 19 T. MARSHALL L. REV. 573 (1994).
  
• The NCAA's Drug Testing Policies: Walking a Constitutional Tightrope?, 67 N.D. L. REV. 269 (1991).
  
• "At the Ol 'Ball Game" and Beyond: Spectators and the Potential for Liability, 14 AM. J. TRIAL ADVOC. 495 (1991).
  
• The Texas 'No Pass, No Play' Controversy; 14 T. MARSHALL L. REV. 27 (1988-1989).
  
• Many other articles (about 500) in history, library science, age discrimination, sports & entertainment law, disability law, boxing law; Sports Law Columnist for Pennsylvania law Journal-Reporter, 1981-1984, and Houston Chronicle, 1990-1993.

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Affiliations

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• Admitted to Practice, Pennsylvania (1982) and Texas (1993)
• E.D. PA., Third Circuit and Tax Court
• American Bar Association
• Texas Bar Association
• AALS
• Houston Bar Consultant, Board of Editors
• Sports Law Reporter, University of Miss., 2000-Present
• Contract Consultant, Association of Boxing Commissioners, 1994-1995
• Consultant, Kauffman Sport Management, Philadelphia & Malibu, 1981-1985

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Honors

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• CLSA Co-Professor of the Year, 1987
• SBA Professor of the Year, 1995