Alfred Mathewson

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Alfred D. Mathewson 
UNM School of Law
AlbuquerqueNM

Alfred Dennis Mathewson is an Emeritus Professor of Law and former Co-Dean of the University of New Mexico School of Law. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of New Mexico in 1983, he practiced corporate law in Denver, Colorado. He earned his B.B.A. from Howard University in 1975 and his J.D. from Yale University in 1978. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of New Mexico in 1983, he practiced corporate law in Denver, Colorado. From 2009 to 2014, he served as the Acting and Interim Director of the UNM Africana Studies Program. From 1997 through 2002, he served as the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs.  He has taught primarily courses in business and sports law. He has published numerous articles and given speeches in these areas and he brings this expertise to his teaching. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the American Law Institute. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He has served as the president of the New Mexico Black Lawyers Association and the Sam Cary Bar Association (Denver). He is a member and past chair of the Section on Law and Sports of the American Association of Law Schools. He was selected as the Business Lawyer of the Year in 2009 by the New Mexico State Bar for his efforts in developing the UNM School of Law's Business and Tax Law Clinic. 

He has published numerous articles on sports law topics and spoken at law schools across the country including Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Wake Forest, West Virginia and Yale. His publications include Sports Law: A Modern Anthology (1999) (with Timothy Davis and Kenneth Shropshire); The Bowl Championship Series, Conference Realignment and the Major College Football Oligopoly: Revolution Not Reform, 1 Miss. Sports L. Rev. 321 (2012);Remediating Discrimination Against African American Females at the Intersection of Title IX and Title VI, 2 Wake Forest J. L. & Policy 295 (2012); By Education or Commerce: The Legal Basis for the Federal Regulation of the Economic Structure of Intercollegiate Athletics, 76 UMKC Law Review 597 (2008); and Black Women, Gender Equity and the Function at the Junction, 6 Marquette Sports L. Rev 239 (1996). His article Major League Baseball’s Monopoly Power and the Negro Leagues, 35 Amer. Bus. J. 291 (1998) is listed in the Harvard Guide to African American History. He is known nationally for his work on the application of Title IX to African American female athletes. 

As a lawyer, law professor and scholar, Dean Mathewson considers his talents and experience to be community resources. In 2014, Professor Mathewson assembled a team of law students to provide presentations on the processes for community input into the approval of the settlement agreement between the United States Department of Justice and the City of Albuquerque on reforms relating to the use of force by the police. He subsequently formed a team of lawyers who filed an amicus brief in federal court on behalf of several community organizations in the fairness hearing on the agreement. Upon retirement from the full-time faculty, he has continued to be active in legal education and the community.

Law School News

Dean Alfred Mathewson To Serve as Interim Chief Legal Counsel

May 22, 2018

UNM School of Law Dean, a Community Engagement MVP

April 25, 2018

Clinton Marrs ('86) enjoys U.S. Supreme Court victory with UNM Law School faculty mentors

June 19, 2017

Dean Alfred Mathewson moderates tax law panel, files sports law amicus brief

November 14, 2016

Scholarship by UNM Law School Dean Mathewson passes test of time

February 1, 2016

Mathewson, Pareja appointed co-deans at UNM School of Law

June 16, 2015

UNM Law Professors Contribute at Law and Society Meeting

June 18, 2012

Professor Alfred Mathewson Talks Sports at Symposium

April 4, 2012

Professor Mathewson Speaks on Gender Equity at Conference

April 14, 2011

Professors Mathewson, Burr Contribute to New Sports Law Book

October 12, 2010

Professor Alfred Mathewson Receives Inaugural Luminaria Award

May 11, 2010

Professor Alfred Mathewson Receives MLK Award

January 7, 2010

Professor Alfred Mathewson Named Business Lawyer of the Year

October 8, 2009

Professor Alfred Mathewson Keynote Speaker at Diversity Forum

February 11, 2009


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