Barak RichmanProfessor of Law, Duke University School of Lawhttp://www.law.duke.edu/fac/richman/ Richman specializes in the economics of contracting, new institutional economics, antitrust, and health care policy.
If the NFL labor lockout continues, professional football coaches will lose the ability to "meaningfully prepare" for the oncoming season, resulting in damage to their careers and personal lives, according to an amicus brief written by Duke Law Professor Barak Richman. The brief was filed in the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals on May 25.
Richman wrote the brief on behalf of the National Football League Coaches Association, as part of the ongoing litigation in the Brady v. NFL antitrust lawsuit. The suit pits players against owners in a labor dispute that led to a lockout in March. Read the brief at http://assets.espn.go.com/preview/coachesbrief.pdf.
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"The lockout will be responsible for avoidable professional failures, and damages cannot compensate the coaches and their families for such harm," Richman wrote in the brief.
"Each firing means uprooting a family and burdening a coach with a perceived failure. Even though the coaches are merely collateral damage in the NFL's targeting of the players, they are vulnerable to severe personal and professional harm that cannot be monetized."