Sorry for the late notice, but if you’re in the Cambridge Massachusetts area today and are free between 3:15 and 4:30, Boston Celtics Assistant Executive Director of Basketball Operations & Associate Counsel Mike Zarren and I will be co-lecturing on age eligibility restrictions in the NBA and NFL, and also on American Needle v. NFL, at Harvard Law School. We are guest lecturing Professor Peter Carfagna‘s sports law class. If you are interested in attending as a guest, please contact Ashwin Krishnan, Professor Carfagna’s teaching assistant and the Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law.
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Shaun Assel of ESPN Magazine has an interesting article on the sports implications of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), which goes into effect Nov. 21, and which explicitly bars employers from using genetic results in hiring and workplace decisions. The piece, which discusses a topic that might make for a great student law review/journal note, is available on ESPN Insider, so I can only post a small portion it. Here’s a short excerpt, which features an interview with Sports Law Blog’s Alan Milstein, a national expert on bioethics and the law and who represented Eddy Curry when he played for the Chicago Bulls and when the Bulls demanded that Curry take a DNA test:

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