Will Berry is the Associate Dean for Research and Montague Professor of Law at the University of Mississippi, where he also serves as the Director of the Cambridge Summer Abroad Program.
Research Interests
- Eighth Amendment
- Entertainment Law
- Criminal Sentencing
- Capital Punishment
- Intercollegiate Sports Law
- Professional Sports Law
- State Constitutional Law
Biography
Professor Berry has taught at the University of Mississippi School of Law since 2008. He currently serves as the Associate Dean of Research and the Director of the Cambridge Summer Abroad Program. Before coming to Ole Miss, he clerked for the Honorable Thomas A. Wiseman, Jr. in the Middle District of Tennessee and the Honorable Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr. on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, as well as practiced law in Washington, D.C. with the firm of Shea & Gardner (now Goodwin Procter).
Berry and Lust's College Sports Law in a Nutshell
The Eighth Amendment and Its Future in a New Age of Punishment
Representative Law Review Publications
Conference-Employees and Student-Athletes, 104 Texas Law Review 249 (2025)
Eighth Amendment Stare Decisis, 98 Southern California Law Review 255 (2025)
The Evolving Standards, As Applied, 74 Florida Law Review 775 (2022)
Cruel State Punishments, 99 North Carolina Law Review 1201 (2020)
Sixth Amendment Sentencing After Hurst, 66 UCLA Law Review 448 (2019) (with Carissa Byrne Hessick)
Evolved Standards, Evolving Justices?, 96 Washington University Law Review 105 (2018)
Courses Taught
- BUS 322 Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
- LAW 568 Criminal Law
- LAW 647 Sports Law I (Intercollegiate Sports Law)
- LAW 709 Entertainment Law
- LAW 721 Capital Punishment and the Judicial Process
- LAW 735 White Collar Crime
- LAW 755 Sports Law II (Professional Sports Law)
Education
M.Sc Criminology, University of Oxford (2007)
Ph.D. Law, University of Oxford (2012)
B.A. English, University of Virginia (1997)
J.D. , Vanderbilt University (2000)