Sports Law and Society: Rules of the Game

Michael E. Jones is Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he taught art, sport, and media law and served as the Director for the Legal Studies Program. He is recognized as one of the pioneer educators and practitioners in the field of Sports Law. He taught the first undergraduate Sports Law class in America. Jones began as an agent for professional athletes and TV celebrities and went on to co-create the Association of Representatives of Professional Athletes, which was later assigned to the NFL Players Association. Jones was the first Chairperson of the American Bar Association’s International Forum Committee on Sports and Entertainment Law. He helped to write the first collective bargaining agreement for soccer in the US and has penned more than thirty law review articles. His other books include Intellectual Property Law Fundamentals, Second Edition (Carolina Academic Press 2019), Art Law, Second Edition (Rowman & Littlefield 2024), Digital Media Law (Bloomsbury 2025), and What Art is Now: Creativity in the Age of AI (Bloomsbury 2026).