Roger I. Abrams is the Richardson Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston. An honors graduate of Cornell University and the Harvard Law School, Professor Abrams is a recognized authority on Sports Law. He has published three books on the National Pastime, THE FIRST WORLD SERIES AND THE BASEBALL FANATICS OF 1903; THE MONEY PITCH: BASEBALL FREE AGENCY AND SALARY ARBITRATION; and LEGAL BASES: BASEBALL AND THE LAW. His fourth book, THE DARK SIDE OF THE DIAMOND: GAMBLING, VIOLENCE, DRUGS AND ALCOHOLISM IN THE NATIONAL PASTIME, will be available in 2008. He has served as a baseball salary arbitrator starting in 1986, and he is regularly asked to comment on legal and economic issues involving the national game by the print and electronic media. For example, in 2007 Professor Abrams was quoted in the American Lawyer, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the Associated Press, among other newspapers. He appeared on National Public Radio and WGBH in Boston. In the fall of 2006, Professor Abrams served as Scholar-in-Residence at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.

Professor Abrams served as dean of Northeastern University School of Law from 1999-2002, as dean at Rutgers University Law School from 1993-1998, and as dean at Nova University School of Law from 1986-1993. Prior to entering academic life in 1974 as a faculty member at Case Western Reserve University, Professor Abrams practiced law in Boston at Foley Hoag & Eliot and clerked for Judge Frank M Coffin of the First Circuit Court of Appeals.

An elected member of the National Academy of Arbitrators since 1982, Professor Abrams serves as a permanent arbitrator for Walt Disney World, the Internal Revenue Service, Lockheed-Martin and the Customs Service. He has authored over 35 law review articles on labor arbitration, sports law and other legal issues in law journals at Harvard, Michigan, and Duke, among others. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and a life member of the American Bar Foundation. In 2004, he was elected a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society.