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Dr. Anastasios Kaburakis
Anastasios Kaburakis holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Indiana University in Bloomington, IN and a Law degree from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He held Faculty appointments at Indiana University and Washington University Law School in St. Louis, MO. He is currently an Asst. Professor and the Director of the Sport Management Graduate Program at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL. Prior to academia, he practiced law and is licensed through the Thessaloniki Bar Association. While in Greece, he coached basketball at the junior and professional club levels, the national teams of Greece, and served the Greek Basketball Federation and FIBA on several legal and policy matters.
He has published articles and presented research on International Comparative Sport Law, NCAA Compliance, particularly pertaining to International Student-Athletes, recruiting, amateurism, gambling, coaches’ contracts, institutional liability, and intellectual property applications in sport. He regularly consults international sport governing bodies, NCAA Division I governance committees, policy-drafting actors in member conferences and coaches’ associations, member institutions’ compliance and coaching staff members on international recruiting, amateurism policy, and legal issues in intercollegiate athletics settings. He serves as an advisor for various international sport consulting firms.
His main research interests include:
- International Sport Law, Governance, Migration, Transfers and players’ restraints
- Immigration Law and Policy
- Discrimination and Employment Law
- International Competition and Antitrust Law
- Intellectual Property
- Contract Law
- Torts and Institutional Liability
- Higher Education Law and Policy
- European Union Law
- Constitutional Law
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Administrative Law
- Legal and Political Philosophy
- NCAA Compliance
- Business Strategy and Structure
- Strategic Management in the Sport Industry
- New Media, Sport Communications, and Marketing
He is married to Kristin Folkl, St. Louis Sports Commission Director of Development. They reside in St. Louis with their three-year-old son Ian Nicholas and one-year-old daughter Sophia Penelope.
