Mitchell N. Berman

Mitchell N. Berman serves as the Leon Meltzer Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, teaching courses including Jurisprudence of Sport, Constitutional Law, Law and Philosophy, and Law and Social Movements. His primary contact email is mitchberman@law.upenn.edu.

His research centers on:

• Legal Philosophy
• Philosophy of Law
• Constitutional Law
• Sports as Legal Systems
• Law and Social Movements

He rigorously examines sports through a jurisprudential lens, analyzing how formal sports function as specialized legal systems with rule-making bodies, adjudication processes, and enforcement mechanisms. His work investigates critical questions about sports rules (e.g., rule-like vs. standard-like formulations), official discretion, appeal procedures, cheating definitions, and eligibility criteria—including complex cases involving transgender athletes and athletes with disabilities—while drawing explicit parallels to ordinary legal systems.

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