Mitchell Nathanson received his B.A. from Tulane University and his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center where he was an Editor for the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal. Before coming to Villanova in 2001, he spent three years in the Healthcare Group at White & Williams and seven in the Environmental Coverage Group at ACE USA (formerly known as CIGNA Property & Casualty Co.) Professor Nathanson teaches Legal Analysis, Writing and Oral Advocacy. His scholarly interests focus on legal writing, health care law, sports law and baseball history. His article, "The Irrelevance of Baseball's Antitrust Exemption: A Historical Review," won the 2006 McFarland-SABR Award which is presented in recognition of the best historical or biographical baseball articles of the year.
Articles
The Sovereign Nation of Baseball: Why Federal Law Does Not Apply to "America's Game" and How It Got That Way, Villanova Sports & Entertainment Law Journal (2008)
This article examines the relationship between Major League Baseball (MLB) and the law and discusses...
What's in a Name, or, Better Yet, What's it Worth?: Cities, Sports Teams and the Right of Publicity, Case Western Reserve Law Review (2008)
This article examines the harm that accompanies real and threatened in-market relocations of professional sports...
Dismantling the "Other": Understanding the Nature and Malleability of Groups in the Legal Writing Professorate's Quest for Equality, Journal of the Legal Writing Institute (2007)
This article examines the nature of groupings within law school faculties and analyzes why some...
The Continental League and the Push for Expansion in Major League Baseball, Outside the Lines: A Publication of the SABR Business of Baseball Committee (2007)
MLB Franchise Relocation Pursuant to its Antitrust Exemption: A Distinction Without a Difference, Outside the Lines: A Publication of the SABR Business of Baseball Committee (2007)
Books
The Fall of the 1977 Phillies: How a Baseball Team's Collapse Sank a City's Spirit (2007)
Too often, the Philadelphia sports fan has been dismissed as a lout, a boorish dolt...
Contributions to Books
The Tell-All Hurler: Jim Bouton and "Ball Four", Courting the Yankees: Legal Essays on the Bronx Bombers (2003)
This chapter examines whether the information released within Bouton's "Ball Four" constituted legally protectable infomation...
Litigation and Regulatory Issues Affecting Managed Care (co-author), Treatise on Health Care Law (1996)
Presentations
Defining the Purpose and Parameters of Scholarship for Legal Writing Professors, The Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute (2008)
Bacon, Dilworth, Phillips and the Phils: Elements of Change in Mid-Century Philadelphia, The Georgetown Club of Philadelphia (2008)
The Phillies, Connie Mack Stadium, and Philadelphia’s Mid-Century Racial Identity, The Twentieth Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture (2008)