UNH Franklin Pierce’s Michael McCann Honored with 2025 AALS Law and Sports Section Award

Associate Dean Michael McCann, the Director of the Sports and Entertainment Law Institute and Associate Dean for Intellectual Life, has been selected to receive the 2025 Association of American Law Schools’ Law and Sports Section Award.

This prestigious award recognizes an individual who has made a substantial and significant contribution to scholarship, teaching, and/or service in the field of sports law. The award will be presented at the 2025 AALS Annual Meeting in January, which will take place in San Francisco, California, on January 8, 2025.

McCann has been a full-time law professor since 2005, when he joined Mississippi College School of Law as an assistant professor of law. He has also taught at Harvard Law School, Boston College Law School and Vermont Law School.

McCann joined UNH Franklin Pierce in 2012 as a professor of law and the founding director of SELI. He has been a licensed attorney since 2002 and has represented athletes and sports business clients in labor, employment, antitrust and intellectual property matters.

McCann has authored more than 25 law review articles, including placements in the Yale Law Journal, Boston College Law Review and Georgia Law Review, is the editor and co-author of the Oxford University Press Handbook of American Sports Law and co-authored Court Justice with former NBA player and UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon. McCann has also authored more than 2,500 legal columns and investigative articles for Sportico and Sports Illustrated and has won multiple awards for teaching, writing and journalism.