Ed Edmonds was appointed by Dean Patricia A. O’Hara in 2006 as Associate Dean for Library and Information Technology and Professor of Law. He retired in December 2016.
Dean Edmonds was the sixth law library director and was delighted to return to his alma mater. He graduated in the class of 1973 with an A.B. in History. He graduated with an M.L.S. from the University of Maryland and a J.D. from the University of Toledo. He served as the law library director at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William & Mary, the Loyola University New Orleans School of Law, and the Schoenecker Law Library at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dean Edmonds teaches Advanced Legal Research and Sports Law Seminar, and he has previously taught antitrust law, criminal law, and entertainment law.
Dean Edmonds has been an active participant in professional law library associations. He served as the president of the Southeastern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries (SEAALL) and the New Orleans Association of Law Librarians (NOALL). He is also active in the Association of American Law Schools and has served as the chair of both the Section on Law Libraries and the Section on Sports and the Law.
Professor Edmonds primary scholarly interests involves antitrust and labor issues involving baseball. In particular, he has written and spoken about the trilogy of United States Supreme Court cases (Federal Baseball v. National League, Toolson v. New York Yankees, and Flood v. Kuhn) that created baseball antitrust exemption. He is the co-editor of the Hein’s Sports Law Legislative History Series and is currently conducting extensive research on baseball salary arbitration.
In recent years, Dean Edmonds has been a regular speaker at the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture and the Annual Spring Training Conference on the Historical and Sociological Impact of Baseball sponsored by Nine: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture.
Edmonds' is one of five Notre Dame law librarians interviewed for the Oral History of Law Librarianship.
Articles
A Most Interesting Part of Baseball's Monetary Structure - Salary Arbitration in Its Thirty-Fifth Year, Ed Edmonds
Arthur Soden's Legacy: The Origins and Early History of Baseball's Reserve System, Edmund P. Edmonds
At the Brink of Free Agency: Creating the Foundation for the Messersmith-McNally Decision - 1968-1975, Edmund P. Edmonds
Meet My Mentors -- Janet Wallin and Caroline Heriot, Edmund P. Edmonds
Over Forty Years in the On-Deck Circle: Congress and the Baseball Antitrust Exemption, Ed Edmonds
Postsecondary Athletics and the Law: A Selected Bibliography, Edmund P. Edmonds
Retirement Party Invitation, Kresge Law Library
The Curt Flood Act of 1998: A Hollow Gesture After All These Years?, Edmund P. Edmonds
The University of St. Thomas Law Library: A New Library for a New Era in Legal Education, Edmund P. Edmonds
The Vatican View on Sport at the Service of Humanity, Ed Edmonds
Books
Baseball and Antitrust: The Legislative History of the Curt Flood Act of 1998, Edmund P. Edmonds and William H. Manz.
Baseball Meets the Law: A Chronology of Decisions, Statutes and Other Legal Events, Edmund P. Edmonds and Frank G. Houdek
Congress and Boxing: A Legislative History, 1960-2003, Edmund P. Edmonds and William H. Manz.
Congress & Sports Agents: A Legislative History of the Sports Agent Responsibility and Trust Act, Edmund P. Edmonds, William H. Manz, and Thomas J. Kettleson.
Programs
The Dedication Mass of Biolchini Hall of Law, University of Notre Dame and Notre Dame Law School
The Dedication of Biolchini Hall of Law, University of Notre Dame and Notre Dame Law School