Stephen F. Ross

  • Lewis H. Vovakis Distinguished Faculty Scholar
  • Professor of Law
  • Executive Director, Penn State Center for the Study of Sports in Society
  • University Park
Stephen Ross

Expertise

  • Antitrust Law
  • Constitutional Law
  • Sports and Entertainment Law

Education

  • J.D., Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California (Berkeley)
  • A.B., University of California (Berkeley)

Biography

Professor Ross teaches and writes in the disparate areas of Sports Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, and Statutory Interpretation. He clerked for Hon. Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her first year on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, served as minority counsel for the Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. Senate, and worked as an attorney for the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice. He has provided expert testimony and advice on sports antitrust issues to governmental entities and sports leagues and players associations around the world, and has consulted on sports league design for professional sports organizations in rugby, ice hockey, cricket, flag football, and motorcycle racing. Professor Ross has also served as a senior fellow of the American Antitrust Institute and as pro bono counsel to the AAI and consumer groups including the Consumer Federation of America on antitrust and sports litigation. He has co-authored casebooks in Sports Law and Comparative Constitutional Law, and a treatise on Global Sports Law in both English and Spanish, and has served as a visiting professor at a number of Canadian, English and Australian universities. Since 2016, Ross has served as co-director of the University-wide Center for the Study of Sports in Society.