Brad Snyder
Assistant Professor of Law
E-mail: bsnyder2@wisc.edu
Teaching Areas:
Civil Procedure
Constitutional Law
Legal History
Biography
Brad Snyder joins the Wisconsin faculty in Fall 2008 as an assistant professor of law. He will be teaching Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, and a seminar on Brown v. Board of Education. In March 2008, he spoke at a symposium on Parents Involved in Community Schools, the Supreme Court's most recent school desegregation decision, at the Ohio State University Law School. He writes about constitutional law and American legal history and has authored two books.
His most recent book, A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in Professional Sports (Viking/Penguin, 2006) tells the story behind the Supreme Court's infamous Flood v. Kuhn decision upholding Major League Baseball's antitrust exemption. The New York Times Book Review said: Generations of ballplayers - Curt Flood's children - have never
honored him properly. But with his fine book, Brad Snyder surely has."
George F. Will said: "Brad Snyder shows why Flood was Dred Scott in
spikes." The
Washington Post named it among the top 100 books of 2006.
From 2001 to 2004, Professor Snyder practiced law at Williams & Connolly, LLP in Washington, D.C. He worked on civil litigation matters including libel and defamation, legal malpractice, and international commercial arbitration and focused on defending journalists and counseling them on how to avoid litigation. Prior to practicing law, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Dorothy W. Nelson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Professor Snyder received his A.B., summa cum laude, in history and Afro-American Studies from Duke University. His honors thesis won the William T. Laprade Prize from the history department and was the basis for his first book, Beyond the Shadow of the Senators: The Homestead Grays and the Untold Story of the Integration of Baseball (McGraw-Hill 2003). Professor Snyder received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was a notes editor on the Yale Law Journal. Before law school, he worked for two years as a reporter with the Baltimore Sun, covering the Baltimore Orioles, city crime, and Capitol Hill, and saw his first Supreme Court oral argument.
