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Maureen Arellano Weston

Professor of Law
Caruso School of Law
310.506.6313
Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Maureen Weston is Professor of Law at Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law and Director of the Entertainment, Media & Sports Dispute Resolution Project. She received her JD from the University of Colorado, and BA in Economics/Political Science at the University of Denver. Professor Weston teaches courses on arbitration, mediation, negotiation, international dispute resolution, legal ethics, and U.S. and international sports law. She serves as Faculty Advisor to the Sports & Entertainment Law Society and Dispute Resolution Journal, and as coach for ICC Mediation Advocacy and Sports & Entertainment Law Negotiation competitions. Weston has taught law at the University of Oklahoma, University of Colorado, University of Las Vegas Nevada, Hamline, and in Oxford, England. Prior to teaching, Weston practiced law with Holme Roberts & Owen and Faegre & Benson in Colorado. She is actively involved in programs furthering opportunities for students to gain experience in negotiation, mediation and arbitration. Her committee service includes the ABA, Law School Division, Arbitration Competition, AALS Sports Law Executive Committee, and former chair of the ABA Dispute Resolution Education Committee and Representation in Mediation Competition. She is a member on the Boards of Directors at the University of Colorado School of Law Alumni Board, the National Sports Law Institute at Marquette School of Law,  and Editorial Board of LawInSport. Member, NCAA Committee on Infractions; Arbitrator, Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS); U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (New Era ADR), American Arbitration Association; FINRA; FAIR Sports. A frequent speaker at conferences, Weston is co-author of casebooks on sports law and arbitration and has written numerous articles in the area of Olympic and International Sports Arbitration, disability law, sports law, and dispute resolution.

Education

  • J.D., University of Colorado, Order of the Coif
  • B.A., University of Denver, magna cum laude

 

Articles

  • Maureen A. Weston, College Sports as Work: Are College Athletes as Employees the Answer or an Existential Threat?, 21 U. ST. THOMAS L. REV. 522 (2025) SSRN HeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, Olympic Dreams Dashed: Arbitrating Seconds, Grams, Identity, and Time at the Paris Olympic Games 2024, 25 NEV. L.J. 257 (2025) SSRN HeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, Off the Guardrails: Opportunities and Caveats for Name Image Likeness and the [Student] Athlete Influencer, 11TEX. A&M L. REV. 911 (2024) SSRN HeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, Breaking Cultural and Financial Barriers in Olympic Sports, 26 VAND. J. ENT. & TECH. L. 347 (2024) SSRN HeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, The Anxious Athlete: Mental Health and Sports' Duty and Advantage to Protect, 13 HARVARD J. SPORTS & ENT. L. 1 (2022) SSRN HeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, Daily Fantasy Sports and the Law in the USA, 21 INT'L SPORTS L.J. 121 (2021) SSRN
  • Maureen A. Weston, Buying Secrecy: Non-Disclosure Agreements, Arbitration, and Professional Ethics in the #MeToo Era, 2021 U. ILL. L. REV. 507 (2021) SSRN HeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, Lawyering and Representing Organizational Clients in a Public Health Crisis, 56 GONZ. L. REV. 259 (2020) SSRN HeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, COVID-19's Lasting Impact on the Sports Industry: Financial, Legal, and Innovation, 61 SANTA CLARA L. REV. 121 (2020) SSRN HeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, Can A Sports Sanction Constitute an Illegal Work Restriction? A Review of NCAA v. Coach Todd McNair, LawInSport, Apr. 16, 2019 SSRN
  • Maureen A. Weston, The International Right to Sport for Persons with Disabilities, 28 MARQUETTE SPORTS L. REV. 1 (2017) SSRN HeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, Tackling Abuse in Sport Through Dispute System Design, 13 U. ST. THOMAS L. J. 434 (2017) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, The Clash: Squaring Mandatory Arbitration with Administrative Agency and Representative Recourse, 89 SO. CAL. L. REV. 103 (2015) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, Money on the Table: Reconsidering College Sports Video Games and Athlete Publicity Rights Post NCAA Student-Athlete Likeness Litigation, 5 MISS. SPORTS L. REV. 50 (2015) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, Symposium Introduction: The New Normal in College Sports: Realigned and Reckoning, 41 PEPP L. REV. 209 (2014) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, The Accidental Preemption Statute: The Federal Arbitration Act and Displacement of Agency Regulation, 6 PENN ST. Y.B. ON ARB. & MEDIATION 59 (2013) SSRN
  • Maureen A. Weston, Gamechanger: NCAA Student-Athlete Name & Likeness Licensing Litigation and the Future of College Sports, 3 MISS. SPORTS L. REV. 77 (2013) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, The Death of Class Arbitration After Concepcion?, 60 KAN. L. REV. 767 (2012) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, NCAA Sanctions: Assigning Blame Where it Belongs, 52 B.C. L. REV. 551 (2011) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, The Other Avenues of Hall Street and Prospects for Judicial Review of Arbitral Awards, 14 LEWIS & CLARK L. REV. 929 (2010) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, A Reflection on American Justice at a Crossroads: A Public and Private Crisis, 11 PEPP. DISP. RESOL. L.J. 175 (2010)SSRNHeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, Anatomy of the First Public International Sports Arbitration and the Future of Public Arbitration after USADA v. Floyd Landis, 2009-10 Y.B. ARB. & MEDIATION 234 (2010) SSRN
  • Maureen A. Weston, Doping Control, Mandatory Arbitration, and Process Dangers for Accused Athletes in International Sports, 10 PEPP. DISP. RESOL. L.J. 5 (2009) (symposium issue) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, Simply a Dress Rehearsal? U.S. Olympic Sports Arbitration and De Novo Review at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, 38 GA. J. INT'L & COMP. L. 97 (2009) (symposium issue) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, The Fantasy of Athlete Publicity Rights: Public Fascination and Fantasy Sports' Assertion of Free Use Place Athlete Publicity Right on an Uncertain Playing Field, 11 CHAP. L. REV. 581 (2008) (symposium issue) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, Preserving the Federal Arbitration Act by Reining in Judicial Expansion and Mandatory Use, 8 NEV. L.J. 385 (2007) (symposium issue) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, Universes Colliding: The Constitutional Implications of Arbitral Class Actions, 47 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1711 (2006) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, Internationalization in College Sports: Issues in Recruiting, Amateurism, and Scope, 42 WILLAMETTE L. REV. 829 (2006) (symposium issue) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, The Intersection of Sports and Disability: Analyzing Reasonable Accommodations for Athletes with Disabilities, 50 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. 137 (2005) (symposium issue) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, Reexamining Arbitral Immunity In an Age of Mandatory and Professional Arbitration, 88 MINN. L. REV. 449 (2004) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, Confidentiality's Constitutionality: The Incursion on Judicial Powers to Regulate Party Conduct in Court-Connected Mediation, 8 HARV. NEGOT. L. REV. 29 (2003) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, California New Arbitrator Ethics Standards: A Primer for Compliance and Confusion?, DISP. RESOL. SERV. NEWS, Oct. 2002; ABA ARBITRATION SECTION NEWSL., Dec. 2002
  • Maureen A. Weston, Checks on Participant Conduct in Compulsory ADR: Reconciling the Need for Good-Faith Participation, Autonomy, and Confidentiality, 76 IND. L.J. 591 (2001) HeinOnline
  • Maureen A. Weston, Academic Standards or Discriminatory Hoops: Learning-Disabled Student-Athletes and the NCAA Initial Academic Eligibility Requirements, 66 TENN. L. REV. 1049 (1999) SSRNHeinOnline
  • Weston, House Aftershocks:  Governing and Competing in College Sports, Inc., 16 NYU Int. & Ent. L. Rev. – (forthcoming Fall 2026)
  • Weston, Grillo's Enduring Process Critique an the Private Settlement of Sexual Misconduct, DISCUSSIONS IN DISPUTE RESOLUTION (VOLUME III) (Oxford University Press, 2026)

Forthcoming Books

Books

  • Kristen M. Blankley & Maureen A. Weston, UNDERSTANDING ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION (2d ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2024) Worldcat
  • Maureen A. Weston et al., ARBITRATION: LAW, POLICY, AND PRACTICE (Carolina Academic Press, 2018) Worldcat
  • Kristen M. Blankley & Maureen A. Weston, UNDERSTANDING ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION (Carolina Academic Press, 2017)  WorldCat
  • Ray Yasser, James R. McCurdy, C. Peter Goplerud & Maureen A. Weston, SPORTS LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (8th ed., LexisNexis 2016) WorldCat
  • Ray Yasser, James R. McCurdy, C. Peter Goplerud & Maureen A. Weston, SPORTS LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (7th ed. 2011) WorldCat
  • Stephen K. Huber & Maureen A. Weston, ARBITRATION: CASES AND MATERIALS (3d ed., LexisNexis 2011) WorldCat
  • Ray Yasser, James R. McCurdy, C. Peter Goplerud & Maureen A. Weston, SPORTS LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (6th ed., LexisNexis 2006) WorldCat
  • Stephen K. Huber & Maureen A. Weston, ARBITRATION: CASES AND MATERIALS (2d ed., LexisNexis 2006) WorldCat
  • Ray Yasser, James R. McCurdy, C. Peter Goplerud & Maureen A. Weston, SPORTS LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (5th ed., Anderson Pub. Co. 2003) WorldCat
  • Ray Yasser, James R. McCurdy, C. Peter Goplerud & Maureen Arellano Weston, SPORTS LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (4th ed., Anderson Pub. Co. 2000) WorldCat

Forthcoming Book Chapter

  • Maurenn A. Weston, State Arbitration Law in a FAA Preemption World: The Interaction Between Federal and State Arbitration Law, in THE FEDERAL ARBITRATION ACT: SUCCESSES, FAILURES, AND A ROADMAP FOR REFORM (Richard A. Bales & Jill I. Gross, eds., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2024) SSRN

Book Chapters

  • Maureen A. Weston, The Regulation of Doping in U.S. and International Sports, in OXFORD HANDBOOK ON AMERICAN SPORTS LAW (Michael McCann ed., Oxford University Press, 2018) SSRN
  • Maureen Arellano Weston, Retired to Greener Pastures: The Public Costs of Private Judging, in JUSTICE, CONFLICT AND WELLBEING (Brian Burnstein & Richard Wagner eds., Springer 2013) 
  • Maureen Arellano Weston, Dispute Autonomy Versus "Quality" Process Concerns, in ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN MEDIATION (Jossey Bass Pub. 2007) 

Areas of Expertise

  • Arbitration
  • Mediation
  • Sports law

Topics

  • Arbitration
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Ethics
  • Mediation
  • Sports Law

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