William B. Briggs (born 1954) of

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and

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, is an American

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in sports and

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. He is vice president for arbitration and litigation for the

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(NFL), an adjunct professor of law at

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, and the Thomas A. O’ Boyle Lecturer in Law at the

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. He received his Bachelor of Science at

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in 1976, his Master of Arts at

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in 1978, and his

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in 1982.

Expertise

Briggs’ expertise includes the application of law and economics to sports and entertainment markets. Beginning as a professional athlete's labor advocate in the late 1970s and 1980s, he has transitioned to the role of counselor of the team owners. His focus includes institutional analysis across multi-competition sectors of the American economy, with a specific focus on the

and the relationship between professional and amateur athletics. In 1983, counselor Briggs was admitted to the bar of the

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. He was staff counsel for the National Football Players Association/Federation of Professional Athletes through 1988, after which he represented professional athletes in arbitration hearings from 1988 to 1994. He began his teaching career as an adjunct professor,

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and Drake College of Law in 1988. He was a visiting associate professor at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations,

from 1989 to 1994.

Sample publications

* Deborah E. Klein & William Buckley Briggs, Proposition 48 and the Business of Intercollegiate Athletics: Potential Antitrust Ramifications under the Sherman Act, 67 Denv. U.L. Rev. 301 (1990)(cited as authority in several legal journals and reviews, including the Florida Law Review, the Fordham Law Review, the Howard University Law Review, the South Texas Law Review, the Tennessee Law Review, and the Villanova Law Review.) * William Buckley Briggs, The ‘Good Motives’ of the NCAA and the Anticompetitive Aspects of Proposition 48: Heading on a Collision Course Under the Sherman Act?, Univ. Denv. L.Rev. (Spring 1990), co-author. * William B. Briggs, Injury Grievances in the National Football League, 63 L. INST. J. 164 (1989).

Associations

Briggs joined the

Phi Kappa Psi Phi Kappa Psi (), commonly known as Phi Psi, is an American collegiate social fraternity that was founded by William Henry Letterman and Charles Page Thomas Moore in Widow Letterman's home on the campus of Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pen ...

fraternity at Cornell University, and through that organization, the Irving Literary Society.Cornell University Residence Plan of 1966, Schedule I, Appendix A (May 3
1966
(''see'' sixth page of document noting the relationship between Phi Kappa Psi and the Irving Literary Society)); ''see also'', List of Phi Kappa Psi/Irving Literary Society Members (Aug. 18
2011
. He is also an honorary member of

Quill and Dagger Quill and Dagger is a senior honor society at Cornell University. It is often recognized as one of the most prominent societies of its type, along with Skull and Bones and Scroll and Key at Yale University. In 1929, ''The New York Times'' stated t ...

at Cornell University.

References

External links

* Cornell Law Schoo
Biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Briggs, William B. Living people 1954 births Lawyers from Manhattan Cornell University alumni People from Ithaca, New York George Washington University alumni Georgetown University Law Center alumni American lawyers