Former NFLPA Executive Director DeMaurice Smith will be the lead instructor next week in London for the Miami School of Law’s second short course on player licensing and international games.
Smith, an adjunct faculty and board member at the law school, will lead the weeklong course that coincides with the NFL International Series. Instruction starts with a full history of the NFL union contract, group licensing rules and international games, and then moves into sessions about the present-day and future landscape.
Sidley Austin partner Irwin Raij will present on stadium finance and development overseas, and class members will visit a soccer club and Wimbledon and hear from NFL and Bears execs. They will conclude with an assignment to develop a hypothetical licensing deal for a sports drink to become an official NFL London games sponsor.