The Preston Robert Tisch Center

ROBERT BOLAND, ESQ.

Academic Chair and Clinical Associate Professor of Sports Management,
Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management

Robert Boland has a B.A. from Columbia University and a J.D. from the Samford University Cumberland School of Law. He teaches Introduction to Sports Management, Sports Law, and Sports Finance. His research interests include all aspects of sports business and in January 2007 he published one of the most comprehensive studies of coaching contracts in football in the Marquette University Sports Law Journal. A sports lawyer by training, Boland is widely sought out to discuss issues combining sports and the law, and has recently appeared on or been quoted by CNN, Reuters, the Associated Press, The New York Times, Crain’s New York Business, and Newsday. He was awarded the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies Award for Teaching Excellence in 2006.