David P . Weber, JD
Professor
Contact
School of Law
Faculty - Law
The Werner Institute
LAWC - Ahmanson Law Center - 246
David P . Weber, JD
Professor
Prof. Weber’s more recent scholarship focuses on the NCAA and the evolution of its policy on name, image, and likeness (NIL). Prof. Weber has served as an expert witness on international college athlete matters, and he has advised businesses as well as collegiate and Olympic athletes on NIL transactions. Prof. Weber has also advised and assisted with federal NIL-related legislation on Capitol Hill. Prof. Weber is the faculty moderator for the Sports Law Concentration.
In addition to his scholarship on NIL, Prof. Weber’s other scholarship has covered many areas including contracts, immigration, sports law, secured transactions, and mortgages and real estate. His work has appeared in many notable journals, and his work has been cited by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Tennessee Supreme Court, American Law Reports (ALR), and American Jurisprudence (Am.Jur.) among others. He has been cited in national publications such as The New York Times, ESPN, Time Magazine, Bloomberg, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Yahoo News, and the Associated Press, as well as many local news outlets.
Prior to joining the faculty, Prof. Weber worked as an associate at the multinational firm of Fredrikson & Byron, P.A., with its headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he did corporate work including work in foreign and domestic mergers and acquisitions, general corporate counseling, international real estate development, and entity formation with a special focus on undocumented entrepreneurs. Prof. Weber has lived and worked abroad in Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua.
Prof. Weber has served on several non-profit boards of directors focusing on providing support and resources to the Latino community. He engages in pro bono immigration work as well as informal advising with other community organizations.
Department
Law
Position
Professor
Articles
- Creighton Lawyer
Weber David P., Law of the Game of Thrones, p. 14 - 17 2018 - Creighton Lawyer
Weber David P., Immigration reform, p. 12 - 15 2014 - Nebraska Lawyer
Weber David P., The coercive use of immigration status in a civil society
14:10, p. 11 - 18 2011 - Weber David P., Federal government issues guidance on handling of bank-issued gift cards 2006
- Franchising World
Weber David P., Gift cards
38:7, p. 71 - 72 2006
Publications
- North Carolina Law Review
Haneman Victoria, The abandonment of international college athletes by NIL policy
101:6, p. 1599 - 1644 2023 - Boston University Law Review
Weber David, Will the professionalization of student-athletes kill the NCAA?
103:6, p. 1591 - 1645 2023 - Tulane Law Review
Weber David P., Athletes in transit
96:5, p. 893 - 953 2022 - Creighton Law Review
Weber David, The practice of law on the field of play
55:1, p. i - ii 2021 - 3D Printing in Medicine
Cote John, COVID-19 and a novel initiative to improve safety by 3D printing personal protective equipment parts from computed tomography
6, p. 20 - 2020 - South Carolina Law Review
Weber David P., Legal structures in a Game of Thrones
70:2, p. 209 - 260 2018 - University of Illinois Law Review
Weber David P., Taxing zombies
2017:3, p. 1135 - 1165 2017 - Probate and Property
Weber David P., Cities and states battle back
29:1, p. 42 - 44 2015 - New Mexico Law Review
Weber David P., Zombie mortgages, real estate, and the fallout for the survivors
45:1, p. 37 - 77 2014 - Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal
Weber David P., Restricting the freedom of contract
16:1, p. 51 - 103 2013 - ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law
Weber David P., State and local regulation of immigration
18:3, p. 707 - 739 2012 - ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law
Weber David P., Regulaciones estatales y locales de inmigración
18:3, p. 835 - 871 2012 - ConsiderChapter13.org
Weber David P., The murky mess of MERS, p. - 2011 - Mississippi Law Journal
Weber David P., The intangibles of payment system stripping
79:2, p. 419 - 466 2009 - Georgetown Immigration Law Journal
Weber David P., Halting the deportation of businesses
23:4, p. 765 - 813 2009 - Weber David P., Long awaited FTC rule 2007
- North Dakota Law Review
Weber David P., United States v. Lara -- Federal powers couched in terms of sovereignty and a relaxation of prior restraints
83:2, p. 735 - 765 2007 - Weber David P., Buying Mexican ejido property requires legal savvy 2007
- Weber David, Unbelievable deals or unbelievable quagmires -- the Ejido land system in Mexico 2006
Presentations
- Presentation on Immigration Law and Trends in Nebraska for the University of Nebraska Lincoln Leadership Education/Action Development (LEAD) Program. The LEAD Program is a joint effort between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Nebraska Agricultural Leadership Council. 2016
- Day of Remembrance Honoring the Work of the Japanese American Citizens League: A Dialogue on the Syrian Refugee Crisis. 2016
- Testimony before Omaha City Council on Vacant Property Registration Ordinance. 2015
- Presentation on Immigration Law and Trends in Nebraska for the University of Nebraska Lincoln Leadership Education/Action Development (LEAD) Program. The LEAD Program is a joint effort between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Nebraska Agricultural Leadership Council. 2015
- Presentation: Zombie Mortgages: Dealing with the "Threat" of Home Ownership when it Refuses to go Away. At the symposium: The Future of Housing: Equity, Stability and Sustainability presented by the Washburn Law Journal and Washburn Law's Business and Transactional Law Center. 2015
- Presentation on the Nebraska Unicamerals Actions on Immigration at the Ecumenical Legislative Briefing Day in Lincoln, Nebraska 2015
- Presentation in the Professors' Corner of American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law on Abandoned Real Estate: Legislative, Judicial, and Regulatory Responses 2014
- Presentation on Immigration Law and Trends in Nebraska for the University of Nebraska Lincoln Leadership Education/Action Development (LEAD) Program. The LEAD Program is a joint effort between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Nebraska Agricultural Leadership Council 2014
- Immigration 101 Training presented as part of a full-day collaborative effort of Justice For Our Neighbors-Nebraska, Catholic Charities, Creighton University School of Law, University of Nebraska School of Law and the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) 2013
- Restricting the Freedom of Contract: A Fundamental Prohibition at the 2013 Law & Legal Education in the Americas: Comparative Perspective conference at the University of Detroit Mercy that was cohosted by the University of Windsor Faculty of Law (Windsor, Ontario, Canada) and the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico 2013
- Presented on Guiding Immigration Policy in Nebraska: The Next 10 Years to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln LEAD (Leadership Education/Action Development) Programs (2011, 2012, and 2013). 2013
- Immigration and Race in State and Local Enforcement of Immigration Laws at the Hispanic Heritage Month Seminar 2012
- 2012 Supreme Court Decisions on Immigration at the Omaha Together One Community (OTOC) 2012
- Presentation on Undocumented Entrepreneurs: Business Structuring and Immigration Compliance at the Western New England College of Law 2012
- Presented on Immigrant Influx, Population Growth and Change in Nebraska as part of the Solidarity Lecture Series at Creighton University 2011
- Presented on Corporate Law Lessons for Immigration Law at the Emerging Immigration Law Scholars Conference presented by the American University Washington College of Law 2011
- Presented Local and State Efforts to Regulate Immigration: A Case Study of Nebraska at the 2011 LatCrit South-North Exchange on Theory, Culture and Law Conference entitled "Migratory Currents in the Americas" 2011
- CLE Presenter on the ABCs of Asylum Law to Iowa/Nebraska AILA (American Immigration Lawyers Association) 2010
- Presented Payment Stream Stripping: How The Common Law May Prevent Revised Article 9 From Leaving Investors Baring All at the Spring Conference on Contracts hosted by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law 2010
- "9500 Liberty" Panel Contributor focusing on immigration aspects of a local ordinance attempting immigration control at the Film Streams Theatre 2010