JOHN HOLDEN

Department of Management
Associate Professor

464 BUSINESS BUILDING
STILLWATER, OK 74074
Phone: 405-744-8604

john.holden@okstate.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ph D, Florida State University., Sport Management, 2016
• Other, University of Ottawa, Law, 2011
• JD, Michigan State University, Law, 2010
• MS, Florida State University, Sport Management, 2007
• BA, Concordia University, Political Science, 2006

Publications

• Becky Harris, John T. Holden, and Gil Fried. (2024). "The Business of Sports Betting". .
• John T. Holden. "Access or Sovereignty". Emory Law Journal (Forthcoming).
• Marc Edelman, Nathaniel Grow, and John T. Holden. "The Re-Monopolization of the U.S. Sports Trading Card Industry". University of Illinois Law Review (Forthcoming).
• John T. Holden and Joanna Wall Tweedie. "Sports Betting in Canada: Legal Perspectives from Two Years of Legal Single-Game Wagering". Current Addiction Reports (Forthcoming).
• Kathryn Kisska-Schulze, John T. Holden, and Corey Ciocchetti. (2023). "Brute Force (Anti) Federalism". American Business Law Journal. (60), 3, 481-540.
• Drew Thornley and John T. Holden. "Rethinking College Football Grant of Rights Agreements". Marquette Sports Law Review (Forthcoming).
• marc Edelman and John T. Holden. "Baseball's Anticompetitive Antitrust Exemption". Boston College Law Review (Forthcoming). (65), 5,
• Alicia Jessop, Thomas A. Baker III, Joanna Wall Tweedie, and John T. Holden. "Charting A New Path: Regulating College Athlete Name, Image and Likeness After NCAA v. Alston Through Collective Bargaining". Journal of Sport Management (Forthcoming).
• John T. Holden. "Exploring the “Excess” in Excessive: Reimagining the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause in the Wake of Stars Interactive". Arizona Law Review (Forthcoming).
• Marc Edelman, Michael McCann, and John T. Holden. "The Collegiate Employee-Athlete". University of Illinois Law Review (Forthcoming). (2023),
• John T. Holden, Thomas A Baker III, and Joanna Wall Tweedie. "The Collective Conundrum". Oklahoma Law Review (Forthcoming).
• Joanna Tweedie and John T. Holden. (2022). "A Legal Perspective on Match-Fixing". New York: Routledge.
• John T. Holden, Marc Edelman, and Michael A. McCann. (2022). "A Short Treatise on College-Athlete Name, Image, and Likeness Rights: How America Regulates College Sports’s New Economic Frontier". Georgia Law Review. (57), 1, 1-78.
• Joanna Tweedie, Rebecca Rosenthal, and John T. Holden. (2022). "Doping in Esports". New York: Routledge. (1),
• John T. Holden. (2022). "Is Sports Betting in Oklahoma Inevitable?". Oklahoma Bar Journal. (98), 8, 6-10.
• John T. Holden, Marc Edelman, Thomas A Baker III, and Andrew G. Shuman. (2022). "Reimaging the Governance of College Sports After Alston". Florida Law Review.
• Greg Day, John T. Holden, and Mills. (2022). "Fraud on Any Market". Indiana Law Journal. (97), 2, 659-706.
• Becky Harris and John T. Holden. (2022). "Reshaping College Athlete Sports Betting Education". Brigham Young University Law Review.
• Marc Edelman, Adam Wandt, and John T. Holden. (2022). "U.S. Fantasy Sports Law: Fifteen Years after UIGEA". Ohio State Law Journal.
• Lucas Loafman and John T. Holden. "Stepping Up to the Plate: Minor Leaguers Attempt to Remedy Their Unconscionable Plight". American Business Law Journal (Forthcoming).
• John T. Holden, Marc Edelman, and Keith C. Miller. "Legalized Sports Wagering in America". Cardozo Law Review (Forthcoming).
• Kimberly Houser and John T. Holden. (2022). "Navigating the Non-Fungible Token". Utah Law Review. (2022), 5,
• John T. Holden. (2022). "The Emergence of Single-Game Sports Betting in Canada". Journal of Legal Aspects of Sport. (32), 2, 198-213.
• Lindsey Darvin, John T. Holden, Janelle Wells, and Thomas A. Baker III. (2021). "Breaking The Glass Monitor: Examining the Underrepresentation of Women in Esports Environments". Sport Management Review.
• Marc Edelman, Thomas A. Baker III, John T. Holden, and Rebecca Rosenthal. (2021). "Esports and the Law". American Bar Association.
• Marc Edelman and John T. Holden. (2021). "Monopolizing Sports Data". William & Mary Law Review. (63), 1,
• John T. Holden and Kimberly A. Houser. (2021). "Taboo Transactions: Selling Athlete Biometric Data ". Florida State University Law Review. (49),
• John T. Holden and Kathryn Kisska-Schulze. (2021). "Taxing Sports". American University Law Review. (71),
• Marc Edelman, Thomas A. Baker III, John T. Holden, and Andrew G Shuman. (2021). "Exploring College Sports in the Time of COVID-19: A Legal, Medical, and Ethical Analysis ". Michigan State University Law Review. (2021),
• John T. Holden, Marc Edelman, and Thomas A. Baker III. (2021). "Global Sports Leagues and China’s Free Speech Problem ". Tulane Law Review.
• John T. Holden and Marc Edelman. (2021). "Regulating Vice: From Marijuana to Sports Gambling ". University of Illinois Law Review. (2021),
• John T. Holden and MArc Edelman. (2020). "A Short Treatise on Sports Gambling and the Law: How America Regulates Its Most Lucrative Vice ". Wisconsin Law Review.
• John T. Holden and Mike Schuster. (2020). "Copyright and Joint Authorship as a Disruption of the Video Game Streaming Industry". Columbia Business Law Review.
• Christopher M. McLeod, John T. Holden, and Joshua I. Newman. (2020). "Agency on Trial in Daily Fantasy Sport". Journal of Sport and Social Issues.
• Kathryn Kisska-Schulze and John T. Holden. (2020). "Betting on Education". Ohio State Law Journal.
• John T. Holden, Thomas A. Baker III, and Marc Edelman. (2020). "The E-Too Movement: Fighting Back Against Sexual Harassment in Electronic Sports". Arizona State Law Journal.
• John T. Holden. (2020). "Through the Wire Act". Washington Law Review.
• John T. Holden, Marc Edelman, and Thomas A Baker III. (2020). "A Short Treatise on Esports and the Law: How America Regulates Its Next National Pastime". Illinois Law Review. (2020),
• John T. Holden. (2020). "Regulating Sports Wagering". Iowa Law Review.
• John T. Holden, Christopher M. McLeod, and Marc Edelman. (2020). "Regulatory Categorization and Arbitrage: How Daily Fantasy Sports Companies Navigated Regulatory Categories Before and After Legalized Gambling". American Business Law Journal.
• John T. Holden. (2020). "Editor's Note: The Sports Gambling (anti) Federalist Papers". Journal of Legal Aspects of Sport. (30), 2,
• John T. Holden, Thomas A. Baker III, and Marc Edelman. (2020). "College Football In the Time of COVID-19". Wisconsin Law Review Forward. (2020),
• John T. Holden and Mike Schuster. (2019). "The Sham of Integrity Fees in Sports Betting". New York University Journal of Law & Business .
• Christopher McLeod, John T. Holden, Matthew Hawzen, and Tarlan Chahardovali. (2019). "Atypical Work and Labor Influx in Sport Events: A Doctrinal and Empirical Inquiry.". Sport Management Review. (22), 4, 527-539.
• John T. Holden and Ryan Rodenberg. (2019). "Modern Day Bucket Shops? Fantasy Sports and Illegal Exchanges.". Texas A & M Law Review. (6), 3, 619-651.
• Tarlan Chahardovali, Neal C Ternes, and John T. Holden. (2019). "Non-Citizens, The First Amendment, and Stadium Speech". Michigan State International Law Review. (27), 2, 283-304.
• John T. Holden. (2019). "Prohibitive Failure: The Demise of the Ban on Sports Betting.". Georgia State University Law Review . (35), 2, 329-386.
• John T. Holden and Thomas A. Baker III. (2019). "The Econtractor? Defining the Esports Employment Relationship". American Business Law Journal. (56), 2, 391-440.
• John T. Holden and Joanna Wall Tweedie. (2019). "The National Football League: Action versus Activism.". Oregon Law Review. (97), 2, 397-424.
• Sam C Ehrlich and John T. Holden. (2019). "Throwing the Book at Irresponsible Coaches: The Need For Consistent Pitch Limit Laws in Amateur Sports". Hofstra Law Review. (47), 2, 527-561.
• John T. Holden, Anatasios Kaburakis, and Joanna Wall Tweedie. (2019). "Virtue (al) games—real drugs". Sport, Ethics and Philosophy. (13), 1, 19-32.
• Thomas Baker III and John T. Holden. (2018). "College Esports: A Model for NCAA Reform.". South Carolina Law Review. (70), 55-85.
• John T. Holden, Anastasios Kaburakis, and Ryan M. Rodenberg. (2018). "Esports: Children, stimulants and video‐gaming‐induced inactivity". Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. (54), 8, 830-831.
• John T. Holden. (2018). "Ghosts in the Machine: How Corrupters Manipulate Games that Never Happened". Gaming Law Review. (22), 10, 630-634.
• John T. Holden. (2018). "Trifling and Gambling with Virtual Money". UCLA Entertainment Law Review. (25), 41-96.
• Christopher McLeod and John T. Holden. (2018). "Steady-State Economics and Stadiums: Using the Date of Ecological Maturity to Conceptualize and Govern Sport Facility Construction. In Brian P. McCullough & Timothy B. Kellison (Eds.) Routledge Handbook on Sport, Sustainability, and the Environment.". New York: Routledge: . 429-442.
• John T. Holden. (2018). "The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act and the Exemption for Fantasy Sports.". Journal of Legal Aspects of Sport. (28), 1, 97-117.
• John T. Holden and Simon Brandon-Lai. (2017). "Advertised Incentives for Participation in Daily Fantasy Sports Contests in 2015 and 2016: Legal Classification and Consumer Implications.". Entertainment and Sports Law Journal. (15), 1-13.
• Ryan Rodenberg and John T. Holden. (2017). "Cognition Enhancing Drugs (‘Nootropics’): Time To Include Coaches and Team Executives in Doping Tests.". British Journal of Sports Medicine. (51), 1316. doi:10.1136/bjsports-2015-095474.
• John T. Holden and Christopher McLeod. (2017). "Ecological Economics and Sport Stadium Public Financing.". William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review. (41), 581.
• John T. Holden, Anastasios Kaburakis, and Ryan Rodenberg. (2017). "Esports Corruption: Gambling, Doping and Global Governance.". Maryland Journal of International Law. (32), 1, 236-273.
• John T. Holden and Sam Ehrlich. (2017). "Esports, Skins Betting, and Wire Fraud Vulnerability.". Gaming Law Review: Economics, Regulation, Compliance, and Policy. (21), 566-574.
• John T. Holden and Ryan Rodenberg. (2017). "Lone-Wolf Match-fixing: Global Policy Considerations.". International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. (9), 137.
• John T. Holden and Ryan Rodenberg. (2017). "Sports Betting Has An Equal Sovereignty Problem". Duke Law Journal Online. (67), 1,
• John T. Holden, Anastasios Kaburakis, and Ryan Rodenberg. (2017). "The Future is Now: Esports Policy Considerations and Potential Litigation.". Journal of Legal Aspects of Sport. (27), 46-78.
• John T. Holden and Christie et al.. (2017). "Brief of Amicus Curiae – Researcher John T. Holden, Christie et al. v. NCAA et al.". United States Supreme Court. (16-476, 477),
• John T. Holden and Stephen Murphy. (2016). "Big Debate: Does the Merger between FanDuel and DraftKings make Strategic Sense.". EGR Magazine.
• Yoojung Rhee, Simon Brandon-Lai, and John T. Holden. (2016). "Aggrieved Fans, Consumer Demand & Another Deflategate Lawsuit.". Sports Litigation Alert. (13), 19.
• John T. Holden, Will Green, and Ryan Rodenberg. (2015). "Daily Fantasy, Tipping, and Wire Fraud". Gaming Law Review & Economics. (21), 8.
• Anastasios Kaburakis, Ryan Rodenberg, and John T. Holden. (2015). "Inevitable: Sports Gambling, State Regulation, and the Pursuit of Revenue.". Harvard Business Law Review Online. (5), 27.
• Ryan Rodenberg, John T. Holden, and Asa Brown. (2015). "Real-Time Sports Data and the First Amendment.". Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts. (11), 63.
• John T. Holden and Ryan Rodenberg. (2015). "The Sports Bribery Act: A Law and Economics Approach.". Northern Kentucky Law Review. (42), 453.
• John T. Holden, Anastasios Kaburakis, and Ryan Rodenberg. (2015). "Occam’s Razor and Sports Wagering Law.". Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law Online Digest.
• John T. Holden. (2014). "North American Sports Leagues and Gambling Policy: A Comparative Analysis.". International Sports Law Journal. (14), 242.
• John T. Holden. (2014). "Owning Shares of Athletes and the 13th Amendment.". Mississippi Sports Law Review. (3), 153.
• John T. Holden, Anastasios Kaburakis, and Ryan Rodenberg. (2014). "Sports Gambling Regulation and Your Grandfather (Clause).". Stanford Law & Policy Review Online. (26), 1.
• Ryan Rodenberg, Anastasios Kaburakis, and John T. Holden. (2014). "“Whose” Game Is It? Sports- Wagering and the Intellectual Property Clause.". Villanova Law Review Tolle Lege. (60), 1.
• Ryan Rodenberg, Anastasios Kaburakis, John T. Holden, and Christie et al.. (2014). "Brief of Amici Curiae – Ryan M. Rodenberg, Anastasios Kaburakis & John T. Holden, Christie et al. v. NCAA et al.". United States Supreme Court. (13-967, 979, 980 ),
• Ryan Rodenberg and John T. Holden. (2013). "A Sure Thing? Online Gaming and Casinos within Canada.". Pace Intellectual Property, Sports & Entertainment Law Forum. (3), 98.
• John T. Holden. (2013). "End Game? New Proposed Florida High School Drug Testing Plan may Test the Limits of Supreme Court Rulings.". Sports Litigation Alert. (10), 16.
• John T. Holden and Ryan Rodenberg. (2013). "Whistleblower: Lance Armstrong, Floyd Landis, and the US False Claims Act.". World Sports Law Report. (11), 4.
• John T. Holden. (2013). "End Game? New Proposed Florida High School Drug Testing Plan may Test the Limits of Supreme Court Rulings.". Legal Issues in High School Athletics.