At the Adjunct Professor Blog, Mitchell Rubenstein (St. John’s) rebukes the Marquette School of Law for retaining MLB Commissioner Selig as an Adjunct Professor. The Marquette press release is here. Prof. Rubenstein writes:
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Isaac Newtons Law of Gravitation holds that every massive particle of the universe attracts every other massive particle. To state it another way, or according to Cam Newton (no relation), When God be blessin, the devil be messin.
The sports-law world may be about to undergo a debate of biblical proportions.
The Cavs, the NBA, and the Cleveland Police Department are taking steps in preparation for LeBron James’ return to Cleveland on December 2. These include trying to limit the anti-LeBron messages fans chant, wear, and display:
I generally do not care for the work of Selena Roberts (formerly of The Times, now of Sports Illustrated). She was one of the worst of the Mike Nifong apologists during the Duke lacrosse case and she pushed the “maybe-they-didn’t-commit-rape-but-it-doesn’t-matter-because-they-hired-a-stripper-so-they-deserved-what-happened-to-them” line even after. Her SI columns see few shades of gray in the world.
The Southern Economic Association (“SEA”) annual conference starts tomorrow in Atlanta. Of the 100+ sessions being held during the three day event, four sessions are devoted to sports. In the course of preparing for my own presentation, I perused the other sports-related papers and was struck by the relatively large number with legal overtones. Legal and quasi-legal topics to be examined using an economic lens include: (i) gambling; (ii) Title IX; (iii) minimum age rules; (iv) crime; and (v) referee-decision making. Such prevalence evidences the strength of both disciplines (law and economics) when analyzing important sports issues. Several papers being presented at the SEA conference are available for download now on SSRN. more…
I just posted on SSRN a free copy of my forthcoming article in the Boston College Law Review titled, “Antitrust, Governance, and Postseason College Football.” Here is the abstract:
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In the course of updating my research file and wrapping up a statistical sequel to my 2008 paper about the NBA age rule, I came across a new law review article in the St. John’s Law Review by Susan McAleavey. In the article, McAleavey introduces an “alternative” to the NBA current rule – a spendthrift trust system. It has been over a decade since I took Wills, Trusts, and Estates as a 2L, so I had to dust off my Black’s Law Dictionary and refresh my memory about the special characteristics of spendthrift trusts. Such trusts are defined as follows:
In a wide-ranging interview last week, recently retired tennis pro Christophe Rochus made a number of statements about doping. Such commentary is nothing new. Athletes and others affiliated with sports often make vague, generalized statements about doping without implicating anyone specific. In rare cases, athletes such as Jose Canseco and Floyd Landis actually name names. In an op-ed that was published in the Los Angeles Times, Michael Shermer explains the “game theory” reasons for such specificity.
