The 1/N-c expansion of the heavy baryon Isgur-Wise functions is discus
sed. Because of the contracted SU(2N(f)) light quark spin-flavor symme
try, the universality relations among the Isgur-Wise functions of Lamb
da(b)-->Lambda(c) and Sigma(b)()-->Sigma(c)(*) are valid up to the or
der of 1/N-c(2).