HESBURGH LECTURE SERIES 2013 Program - Alumni Association ...

Edmund P. Edmonds, J.D., ’73
Associate Dean and Director, Kresge Law Library
Biography
Ed Edmonds is the associate dean for library and information technology at the Kresge Law
Library and a professor of law. He is the sixth law library director at the University of Notre
Dame Law School, having joined the faculty in July 2006. A 1973 graduate of the University of
Notre Dame (B.A., History), he graduated with a M.L.S. from the University of Maryland and
a J.D. from the University of Toledo. Edmonds served as the law library director at three other
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law schools before Notre Dame—William & Mary, Loyola University New Orleans, and the
University of St. Thomas.
Education, Government,
Edmonds’ teaching responsibilities include Advanced Legal Research and the Sports Law History, Law
Seminar, while his scholarly interests include antitrust and labor issues involving baseball,
with a particular emphasis on baseball’s antitrust exemption and salary arbitration. He is
the co-editor of Hein’s Sport Law Legislative History Series. He is a regular speaker at the annual Cooperstown Symposium on
Baseball and American Culture and the annual Spring Training Conference on the Historical and Sociological Impact of Baseball
sponsored by Nine: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture. Edmonds is the immediate past chair of the section on Sports and
the Law of the Association of American Law Schools.
Lectures
Baseball’s Interesting Relationship with the U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court has issued three separate opinions (Federal Baseball in 1922, Toolson in 1953, and Flood in 1972) that
created baseball’s antitrust exemption and special status. The decisions will be discussed together with an explanation of the
court’s different treatment for baseball compared to other sports and industries.
Libraries in a Most Dynamic Time: The Changing Landscape of Information Delivery
The first decade of the 21st century has been both dynamic and dramatic for libraries. With the creation of enormous electronic
access to information, the role of libraries is evolving rapidly. This lecture will discuss both the challenges and the exciting
possibilities facing academic libraries.
A Look at Baseball’s Handling of “A FISTFULL of Dollars”—MLB’s System of
Salary Arbitration
Major League Baseball uses a system of final offer salary arbitration as the ultimate solution for salaries of a group of players
each year who are not eligible for free agency. This lecture presents an explanation of the system, together with a discussion of
baseball’s general salary structure.
The NFL Versus Its Players
On the morning of March 12, 2011, the National Football League locked out its players prompting the National Football League
Players Association to decertify as a union. Pushing aside over two decades of labor peace, the NFL and its players are embroiled
in litigation over how to resolve their many differences. This lecture discusses the current status of the labor situation in the NFL.
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