Darryl C. Wilson
Co-Director of the Institute for Caribbean Law and Policy
Professor of Law
B.F.A., B.B.A., Southern Methodist University
J.D., University of Florida
LL.M., (IP) John Marshall Law School

Professor Wilson teaches Real Property, Domestic and International Intellectual Property, and the Law of Sports and Entertainment.  Before coming to Stetson, Professor Wilson was an Associate Professor at Detroit College of Law (now Michigan State University College of Law). He has taught internationally in the Caribbean, Spain, Estonia, Zambia, and the Netherlands. He is the faculty advisor for the Intellectual Property Law Society, Sports and Entertainment Law Society, and the Black Law Students Association. He is the Director of the Intellectual Property Law Internship Program, the American-Caribbean Law Initiative, and the Institute for Caribbean Law and Policy.

Prior to devoting himself to full-time academia, Professor Wilson taught bar review courses and practiced in his hometown, Chicago, Illinois. His varied career began as a fellow with the congressional Reginald Heber Smith Community Law program. He served his public interest law fellowship with the Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation. He later served as a staff attorney and Pro Bono Coordinator for that organization. Thereafter, he served as in-house corporate intellectual property counsel for Soft Sheen Products, as a regional counsel for real property affairs with UAW, and as the principal attorney in his own private firm.

Professor Wilson is an active member of numerous professional and community organizations, and he is also active in alternate dispute resolution serving as a neutral, mediator and/or arbitrator for international, national and state agencies.  He has written several articles in his areas of expertise and co-authored a casebook on Sports Law. He has also been certified as a NFL Players Association contract advisor.

Courses:

• Real Property I, Fall 2007
• Real Property II, Spring 2007
• Sports Law
• Entertainment Law
• Patents & Copyrights, Spring 2007
• Trademarks & Unfair Competition
• International Intellectual Property, Fall 2007

 

Awards & Recognition

• Homer and Dolly Hand Faculty Research Award (1999)
• Teacher of the Year (1997-1998)
• Most Involved Faculty Member (1995-1996)

 

Publications:

• ACLI Case Notes 2 The American and Caribbean Law News 5 (2007)

• Mastering Property, forthcoming, Carolina Academic Press (2007)

• "Let Them Do Drugs", A Commentary on Random Efforts At Shot Blocking in the Sports Drug Game, 8 Florida Coastal Law Review 53, (Fall, 2006)

• Myths and Mispreceptions Affecting the Minority Student's Law School Experience, in The African American Law School Survival Guide, 112 (Evangeline M. Mitchell, ed., 2006)

• ACLI Case Notes 1 The American and Caribbean Law News 5 (2006)

• Waltzing to R.A.P., 39 Creighton Law Review 129 (2005)

• Home Field Disadvantage: The Negative Impact of Allowing Home Schoolers to Participate in Mainstream Sports.3 Virginia Journal of Sports and the Law 1 (2001)

• Elder Law Issues in the Basic Real Property Course.30 Stetson Law Review 353 (2001)

• 'Black' Law Schools Face Challenges of a New Day. 18 Black Issues in Higher Education 104 (April 12, 2001)

• Magill's Legal Guide (Salem Press Publications, 1999):

• Trade Secret Law
• Bailment
• Covenants Not to Compete
• Easements
• Future Estates

• Title IX's Collegiate Sports Application Raises Serious Questions Regarding the Role of the NCAA, 31 John Marshall Law Review 1303 (1998) [cited as "Worth Reading" in the National Law Journal, Feb. 15, 1999, at B6]

• The Legal Ramifications of Saving Face:
  An Integrated Analysis of Intellectual Property and Sport.
  4 Villanova Sports & Entertainment Law Journal 227 (1997)
  [excerpted in Sports and the Law: A Modern Anthology, Carolina Press 1999]

• Parity Bowl IX: Barrier Breakers v. Common Sense Makers - The Serpentine Struggle for Gender Diversity in Collegiate Athletics
  27 Cumberland Law Review 397 (1997)

• Florida Lawyer's Guide
  1995 Real Estate Sections Revisions
  Lawyers Cooperative Publishing

Selected Affiliations:

• American Bar Association (ABA)
• National Bar Association (NBA)
• Sports Lawyers Association (SLA)
• American Intellectual Property Lawyer's Association (AIPLA)
• International Trademark Association (INTA)
• Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyer's Association (BESLA)

 

Board Directorships:

• Broadwater Homeowner's Association
• Florida Education Fund
• Gulfcoast Legal Services, Inc.
• Pinellas Community Television, Inc.

 

Certifications and Memberships:

• Illinois Supreme Court - Certified Arbitrator
• Florida Supreme Court - Certified Mediator
• Florida Attorney General's Office - Lemon Law Arbitrator
• United States Postal Service-EEO Mediator
• American Arbitration Association - Commercial Arbitrator
• National Association of Securities Dealers - Certified Arbitrator
• New York Stock Exchange - Certified Arbitrator
• World Intellectual Property Organization - Arbitrator/Mediator
• National Arbitration Forum - Commercial/IP Arbitrator
• State Bar of Illinois - Member
• Northern District of Illinois - Member
• State Bar of Florida - Academic Associate
• United States Supreme Court