Faculty & Advisors: LLM in Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law

Miami Law has distinguished advisors, faculty, visiting professors, alumni, and top local, national and international experts as adjunct professors whose expertise cuts across all areas of this LL.M.

In addition, there are a large number of prominent entertainment attorneys and companies based in South Florida which allow the program to draw upon this local talent pool as adjuncts.

Board of Advisors

  • Charles Baker - Partner and Co-Chair, Entertainment Sports and Media Industry Group, Sidley Austin LLP
  • Shiri Ben Yishai – General Counsel, Fanatics
  • John Belcaster – General Counsel, MSCHF
  • Hal Biagas - COO and General Counsel, Seven1 Sports & Entertainment Group
  • Brandon Briggs – Vice President, Legal & HR, Inter Miami CF
  • Lin Cherry - Chief Talent Experience Officer, Wizeline
  • Harold Flegelman - Founding Program Director and Former Director of the Entertainment Track, Graduate Program in Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law; and Adjunct Faculty
  • Emilio Garcia Silvero – Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, FIFA
  • Danielle Garno - Partner, Daniel Ebeling Maccia & Cohen; Chief Legal Officer, My Ascend AI
  • Horacio Gutierrez - Senior Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, The Walt Disney Company
  • Terri Jackson - Executive Director, WNBAPA
  • Seth Krauss - Chief Administrative Officer & Senior Counsel, TKO; Chief Administrative Officer & Senior Counsel, Endeavor
  • Rachelle Laroche - VP, Chief Commercial & IP Counsel, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, Inc.
  • Kim Miale - NFL Agent & General Counsel, Roc Nation Sports
  • Liz Moore - Chief Legal & IT Officer, LPGA
  • Sally Ng – Senior Vice President, Head of Business and Legal Affairs, Telemundo Enterprises and NBCUniversal International Networks & DTC
  • Myles Pistorius - Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Miami Dolphins
  • Dan Radakovich - Athletic Director, University of Miami
  • Irwin Raij - Partner and Co-Chair, Entertainment Sports and Media Industry Group, Sidley Austin LLP
  • Pilar Ramos - Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, TelevisaUnivision
  • Jose Sariego - Partner, Bilzin Sumberg
  • Cristina Scarano - Partner, Jayaram Law
  • Dennis Scholl - Former President & Chief Executive Officer, Oolite Arts, Miami; Documentary Filmmaker
  • Ana Salas Siegel – Former Senior Vice President & General Counsel, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises
  • Christine Simmons – Founder & CEO Alis Volat Propriis; Former COO, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences; Former President and COO, LA Sparks
  • DeMaurice Smith – Former Executive Director, NFLPA
  • Lauren Spahn - Shareholder, Intellectual Property Group, Buchalter
  • Marc Trestman - Senior Offensive Assistant, LA Chargers; Long-time NFL, CFL, XFL Head Coach
  • Marc Weinroth - Deputy General Counsel, Miami Dolphins, Hard Rock Stadium, Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix, Miami Open
  • Krista Whitaker – Executive Vice President, Legal & Business Affairs & Chief Legal Officer, Chicago Bears
  • Judd Zebersky - CEO, Jazwares, Inc.
  • Leslie Ziegel - Partner /Chair, Entertainment, Media & Technology Group /Co-Chair, Cannabis Group, SMGQ

Also see the EASL Young Alumni Advisory Board members

Arts Law Directors

Carolina Jayaram

Carolina Jayaram

Lecturer
Adjunct Faculty, Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law LL.M, Co-Director, Arts Law Track

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Carolina García Jayaram is the Founding CEO of The Elevate Prize Foundation, a global purpose-driven nonprofit that serves to amplify social impact and empower passionate problem solvers, leaders, and innovators. García Jayaram has over two decades of experience in leading nonprofit organizations dedicated to enriching and...
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Vivek Jayaram

Vivek Jayaram

Lecturer
Adjunct Faculty, Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law LL.M, Co-Director, Arts Law Track

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Vivek Jayaram is an attorney who practices in the areas of business litigation, copyright, trademark, and commercial transactions. Hi is Co-Director of the Arts Law Track in Miami Law's Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law LL.M. Program. He has represented a number of Fortune 500 companies as well as small and midsized...
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Entertainment Law Directors

Ivy Kagan Bierman

Ivy Kagan Bierman

Lecturer
Director of the Entertainment Track, Graduate Program in Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law; and Adjunct Faculty

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Ivy Kagan Bierman is a partner at Loeb & Loeb LLP in Los Angeles and Director of the Entertainment Law Track in Miami Law's Graduate Program in Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law. Her practice includes the representation of entertainment and related companies in labor,...
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Gwen Marcus

Gwen Marcus


Distinguished Practitioner and Advisor, Entertainment Track, Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law LL.M

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Gwen Marcus has enjoyed a four-decade career in entertainment law, having most recently served as Showtime Networks Inc.’s longtime Executive Vice President & General Counsel. Ms. Marcus joined Showtime in 1984 as Assistant Counsel after serving as an associate in the entertainment department of the New York law firm Paul, Weiss,...
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Sports Law Directors

Peter A Carfagna

Peter A Carfagna

Lecturer
Adjunct Faculty; Co-Director, Sports Law Track - Graduate Program in Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law LL.M.

(305) 284-3088
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Peter A. Carfagna is Chairman/CEO of Magis, LLC, a privately owned sports marketing, management and investment company. including family ownership of the Lake County Captains, Cleveland Indians Class A Affiliate.  He has also been the Managing Member of LLC’s affiliated with many Major League Baseball teams, including the...
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Patricia D White

Patricia D White

Professor of Law
Dean Emerita; Co-Director, Sports Law Track - Graduate Program in Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law LL.M.

(305) 284-2394
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Patricia D. White is a Professor of Law and was the University of Miami School of Law's eleventh dean from 2009-2019. Her legal career spans over four decades as an attorney and educator.  She was the first woman law school dean in Arizona and the longest serving one in the history of Arizona State University’s...
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Program Faculty

Kenneth J Anand

Kenneth J Anand

Lecturer

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Kenneth Anand is the author and co-founder of SNEAKER LAW. He was Head of Business Development & General Counsel of YEEZY Apparel, a fashion and design company owned and operated by Kanye West. Anand assisted YEEZY with developing new and existing lines of business as well as all in-house legal matters. Anand has...
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Charles Baker

Charles Baker

Lecturer
Adjunct Faculty and Advisory Board Member, Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law LL.M. Program

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Charles Baker is Partner and Co-Chair of the Entertainment Sports and Media Industry Group at Sidley Austin LLP. His corporate practice encompasses mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and venture capital transactions, with a core focus in the sports, media and consumer sectors. Baker has represented buyers and sellers of...
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Albert H Biagas

Lecturer

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Andrew Brandt

Andrew Brandt

Lecturer

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Andrew Brandt is a nationally-recognized accomplished sports executive now bringing his credibility and unique insight and perspective to academia and the media and is is Professor of Practice and Executive Director of the Moorad Center for the Study of Sports Law at Villanova Law School.  Brandt is regularly cited in...
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Terri Carmichael Jackson

Terri Carmichael Jackson

Lecturer
Adjunct Faculty, LL.M. in Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law

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Terri Carmichael Jackson is the Executive Director of the Women’s National Basketball Players Association. In this role, Jackson is responsible for WNBPA board relations, executive leadership and management, labor matters generally and collective bargaining negotiations, specifically. She teaches in the School of Law's...
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Ana C Francois

Assoc. Professor Prof Practice

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Danielle Garno

Danielle Garno

Lecturer
Adjunct Faculty, Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law LL.M. Program

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Danielle N. Garno is a partner at Holland & Knight and focuses her practice on issues faced by the fashion community, including, startup phase and commercial advice, intellectual property such as trademark and copyright infringement, social media marketing, advertising, and anti-counterfeiting, as well as...
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Mansour Ghomeshi

Lecturer

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Mansour Ghomeshi is the Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the Board of Directors for 360fly where he handles matters involving filing patent and trademark applications, setting patent filing strategy and negotiating and drafting corporate documents and stockholder agreements. Prior to working for VSN, Ghomeshi worked for Motorola...
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Jared Goldstein

Jared Goldstein

Lecturer

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Jared Goldstein is author and co-founder of SNEAKER LAW. Goldstein teaches and regularly lectures at universities, law schools, and various organizations about the sneaker business. He is also Legal Counsel at LiveIntent, an ad-tech and marketing company. Goldstein assists LiveIntent with all in-house legal matters,...
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Darren Heitner

Lecturer
Adjunct Faculty, Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law LL.M. Program

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Darren Adam Heitner is the Founder of Heitner Legal, P.L.L.C., an adjunct professor of NIL at the University of Miami School of Law in the Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law LL.M. program, an adjunct professor of Sports Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, a certified arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association, and...
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