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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 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Indiana University Bloomington, and Washington University Law School in St. Louis. He is currently an Asst. Professor of Management and Sports Business in the John Cook School of Business, Saint Louis University. 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, FIBA, and several European educational institutions on 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 South County, St. Louis with their four-year-old son Ian Nicholas and two-year-old daughter Sophia Penelope.
