Tulane Sports Law Faculty & Staff
Prof. Gabe Feldman
Feldman’s extensive experience in sports law includes representing a variety of sports entities while he was in private practice, and he continues to act as a consultant for a number of clients in the sports industry.
Feldman joined the Tulane Law faculty in 2005 after nearly five years as an associate with Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. Before that, he served as judicial clerk to Judge Susan H. Black of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Jacksonville, Fla.
He is regularly quoted in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and other newspapers throughout the country, and he has made numerous appearances on national television and radio. He currently serves as the on-air legal analyst for the NFL Network.
Feldman is editor of The Sports Lawyers Journal, a law journal devoted to the study of sports law, and The Sports Lawyer, a monthly online newsletter, and was a sports law contributor to the now-defunct Grantland.com and the Sports Law Blog. He is director of publications for the Sports Lawyers Association; co-authored of one of the leading sports law casebooks in the country, Sports Law: Cases and Materials; is on the Articles Review Board for the Journal of Legal Aspects of Sport; and has been published in a variety of journals and periodicals. Much of his writing focuses on the intersection of antitrust, labor, intellectual property law and the sports industry. He also serves as a mediator and arbitrator.
Feldman sits on the board of directors of the Sports Lawyers Association, Walk Again Athletic Warriors and Athletes for Hope, a nonprofit organization created to harness the power of sports to impact social change. He also is the director of Special Olympics in New Orleans and is a member of the NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports.
He teaches Antitrust, Sports Law, Negotiation and Mediation and Contracts. In 2013, he received a President’s Award for Graduate and Professional Teaching, a Tulane University recognition of excellence in teaching, learning and research.
Gabe Feldman
Sher Garner Professor of Sports Law; Paul and Abram B. Barron Professor of Law; Director, Tulane Sports Law Program; Co-Director, Tulane Center for Sport; Associate Provost for NCAA Compliance
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Eric Blevins
Sports Law Program Manager, Tulane Center for Sport
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Eric Blevins
As the Sports Law Program Manager for the Center for Sport, Eric is responsible for coordinating academic, research, student, and community activities, including the coordination and implementation of the Tulane Sports Executives Club, the Center for Sport Speaker series, Sports Law competitions, educational development, career services opportunities, and other events for the Center’s overall mission.
Eric attended Tulane University Law School, where he was a member of the Sports Lawyer’s Journal and authored “College Football’s BCS (Bowl Cartel System?): an Examination of the Bowl Championship Series Agreement Under the Sherman Act, 18 Sports Law. J. 153” (2011).
Prior to joining the Tulane Center for Sport in 2020, Eric was an attorney practicing in New Orleans.
Asst. Dean Vanessa Beary
Vanessa Beary oversees career development initiatives in the Tulane Law community. She cultivates and strengthens relationships with employers and alums and counsels Tulane law students on professional development issues with a focus on judicial clerkships and careers within the sports law industry. She has substantial private practice experience with major law firms in California and New Orleans, where she practiced appellate and trial court litigation on a range of complex business issues, including employment discrimination and compensation matters and insurance coverage disputes. Additionally, she has five years of experience as faculty and staff at UC College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), where she served both as a professor in the legal writing and moot court programs and as Associate Director for LLM Advising.
A native of New Orleans, Dean Beary earned her undergraduate degree in psychology from Tulane and her J.D. from UC Hastings. During law school, she studied international and comparative law in the Netherlands and served as a judicial extern for the Hon. Martin Jenkins in the Northern District of California. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the New Orleans chapter of the Federal Bar Association and also teaches Legal Research and Writing at Tulane.
Dean Beary loves baking, running, and rooting for the New Orleans Saints.
Vanessa Beary
Assistant Dean for Career Development, Tulane Law School
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Tess Belt
Director of Education, Tulane Center for Sport
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Tess Belt
Teresa Belt, a native of St. Louis, Missouri, has more than 12 years of experience in education, serving as as both an instructor and administrator in secondary education. Belt has worked with learners of all ages, from youth to adult, and has extensive experience designing coursework to address the appropriate needs of the audience. As an administrator of academics, she has overseen the development of curriculum in several disciplines, and developed and implemented varying levels of technology-centered curricula. Belt has a robust working knowledge of educational grant writing and experience with accreditation processes. Over the past 12 years, Teresa has worked in both the public and private school systems of Alabama and Louisiana.
As the Center for Sport’s Director of Education, Belt is charged with the strategic development and expansion of sport-centered educational opportunities, including programs for undergraduate and graduate students, continuing education and summer enrichment courses for high school students.
Teresa has a passion for athletics. She played volleyball at the collegiate level and has coached for USA Volleyball club teams (ages 12-16) and the junior varsity volleyball teams of John L. LeFlore High School and Ursuline Academy High School New Orleans.