Office Details
Administrative Assistant: Latosha Davis,
410.837.4689
John and Frances Angelos Law Center, Room 1006
Education
L.L.M., Harvard Law School
M.A., The George Washington University
J.D., The George Washington University
B.A., University of Massachusetts
Areas of Expertise
Courses Tought:
Civil Procedure I
Civil Procedure II
Advanced Civil Procedure
Sports and the Law
Introduction to Lawyering Skills
Biography
Koller’s scholarly focus is sports law, particularly in the areas of youth, Olympic and Paralympic, and education-based sports, and she is a frequent media commentator and consultant to state and federal legislatures on issues related to sports and the law. ?Koller is the director for the Center for Sport and the Law at UBalt ?Law.
In 2021, Koller was appointed by Sen. Maria Cantwell to co-chair the bipartisan Commission on the State of U.S. Olympic and Paralympics, which delivered its final report to Congress in 2024. She also has served as chair and as a member of the executive board for the Sports Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), is a member of the United States Anti-Doping Agency’s Administrative Review Panel, and she is on the editorial board for the International Sports Law Journal.
Koller was awarded the AALS 2024 award for significant contributions to the field of sports law, and she has also received the University of Baltimore President’s Faculty Award for outstanding achievement in teaching, scholarship and community service, and the UBalt Law James May Teaching Award and Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award.
Prior to entering law teaching, Koller was an attorney with Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. in Washington, D.C.
Dionne Koller, Deterring Regulation Through the Threat of Sportspocalypse, in The Routledge Handbook Of Sports Law And Governance (Annette Greenhow & John Wolohan eds., 2025).
Dionne Koller,More on More Than Play,New Eng. L. Rev. (2025) (featured in the symposium edition & based on her recent book,More Than Play).
Dionne Koller, Identifying Youth Sport, 35 Yale J. L. Human. 1 (2024).
Dionne Koller, Testimony Before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Protection (June 17, 2025).
Dionne Koller, Testimony and Participation in the March 20 Hearing Before the Senate Committee on Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection on Promoting a Safe Environment in U.S. Athletics (March 20, 2024).
Dionne Koller, Commission Co-Chair, Passing the Torch: Modernizing Olympic, Paralympic, and Grassroots Sports in America (March 1).