New Sports Law Scholarship

Recently published scholarship includes:

Michael Atkinson, Note, Let them play: why Kentucky should enact a “Tebow bill” allowing homeschoolers to participate in public school sports, 43 JOURNAL OF LAW & EDUCATION 433 (2014)

Charles Bahlert, College football, electronic arts, sand the right of publicity: reality-mimicking run amok, 18 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW BULLETIN 149 (2014)

Mary Meghan Balkin, “Take me out to the ball game” — the contractual implications of Wrigley Field renovations on the Chicago Cubs’ contracts with rooftop seat holders, 15 TEXAS REVIEW OF ENTERTAINMENT & SPORTS LAW 211 (2014)

Michael S. Beck, Note, Fair or foul? Major League Baseball’s use of a tortious interference lawsuit as a means of investigation, 32 CARDOZO ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW JOURNAL 927 (2014)

Jonathan Becker, Comment, Stepping up to the plate: can the city of San Jose overcome baseball’s antitrust exemption?,  21 JEFFREY S. MOORAD SPORTS LAW JOURNAL 431 (2014)

Brett E. Beter, Mann v. Louisiana High School Athletic Ass’n: the game plan for eluding high school eligibility rules, 21 SPORTS LAWYERS JOURNAL 297 (2014)

Kevin W. Brooks, “Physically ready to compete”: can players’ unions ban potential draftees based on their age?,  21 SPORTS LAWYERS JOURNAL 89 (2014)

Timothy F. Brown, Comment, Historic districts and the imagined community: a study of the impact of the Old Georgetown Act, 24 SETON HALL JOURNAL OF SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW 81(2014)

M. Tyler Brown, Comment, College athletics internships: the case for academic credit in college athletics, 63 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1855 (2014)

Nicholas Burkhart & Dylan Welsh, The legalization of sports gambling: an irreparable harm or the beginning of unprecedented growth?,  21 SPORTS LAWYERS JOURNAL 145 (2014)

@ErinBuzuvis, Title IX feminism, social justice, and NCAA reform, 2014 FREEDOM CENTER JOURNAL 101 

Clay Calvert et al., Gruesome images, shocking speech & harm to minors: judicial pushback against the First Amendment after Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association?,  13 VIRGINIA SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW JOURNAL  127 (2014)

Kyle Cassidy, Comment, Reining in the use of performance enhancing drugs in horseracing: why a federal regulation is needed, 24 SETON HALL JOURNAL OF SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW 121 (2014)

Kelli Rodriguez Currie, National Collegiate Sports Counseling Center: providing student athletes with comprehensive advocacy throughout their collegiate career, 12 SEATTLE JOURNAL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE 1129 (2014)

Ashton Daley, Comment, The fourth quarter of Title IX: forty years of misrepresentation and how to get back to equal, 5 FEDERAL COURTS LAW REVIEW 247 (2012)

Timothy Davis &  Christopher T, Hairston, Majoring in infractions: the evolution of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s enforcement structure, 92 OREGON LAW REVIEW 979(2014)

William A. Drennan, Should organizations promoting dangerous sports enjoy maximum tax benefits?,  51 SANDIEGO LAW REVIEW 509 (2014)

@MarcEdelman, The NCAA’s “death penalty” sanction—reasonable self-governance or an illegal group boycott in disguise?, 18 LEWIS & CLARK LAW REVIEW 385 (2014)

@MarcEdelman, The future of amateurism after antitrust scrutiny: why a win for the plaintiffs in the NCAA Student-Athlete Name & Likeness Licensing Litigation will not lead to the demise of college sports, 92 OREGON LAW REVIEW 1019 (2014)

Hymie Elhai et al., Lockouts: Past, Present and Future (Panel), 24 SETON HALL JOURNAL OF SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW 7 (2014)

Brett McClain Epstein, Should the crime determine the extent of due process?: the National Collegiate Athletic Association followed such logic during the Penn State scandal, 21 SPORTS LAWYERS JOURNAL 169 (2014)

Elizabeth Etherton, Systematic negligence: the NCAA Concussion Management Plan and its limitations, 21 SPORTS LAWYERS JOURNAL 1 (2014)

Timothy Galáz, Comment, Bargaining for the next gay player: how can Jason Collins help to develop the National Basketball Association into a more inclusive workplace?, 21 JEFFREY S. MOORAD SPORTS LAW JOURNAL 461 (2014)

Courtney Gesualdi, Note, Sports stadiums as public works projects: how to stop professional teams from exploiting taxpayers, 13 VIRGINIA SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW JOURNAL  281 (2014)

Stuart C. Gillespie, When the clock starts for pursuing past doping violations, 15 TEXAS REVIEW OF ENTERTAINMENT & SPORTS LAW 123 (2014)

Samantha Goewey, Comment, Taxing the gold: the tax treatment of Olympians, 24 SETON HALL JOURNAL OF SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW 179 (2014)

Margaret Greer, Note, Concussion crisis: regulating the NFL’s concussion policy under the Commerce Clause, 42 HASTINGS CONSTITUTIONAL LAW QUARTERLY 187 (2014) 

James Gross, Note, A delayed blitz on the NFL's blackout policy: a new approach to eliminating blackouts in publicly funded NFL stadiums, 82 GEORGE WASHINGTON LAW REVIEW 1194 (2014)

@NathanielGrow, Insolvent professional sports teams: a historical case study, 18 LEWIS & CLARK LAW REVIEW 345 (2014)

John Guccione, Note, Moving past a “pocket change” settlement: the threat of preemption and how the loss of chance doctrine can help NFL concussion plaintiffs prove causation, 22 JOURNAL OF LAW & POLICY 907 (2014)

Hosea H. Harvey, Refereeing the public health, 14 YALE JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY, LAW & ETHICS 66 (2014)

Yifei He, American Needle upon remand, 24 SETON HALL JOURNAL OF SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW 43 (2014)

@DarrenHeitner & Alan Wilmot, Score a touchdown, kiss your tattoo, and get sued for copyright infringement?, 21 JEFFREY S. MOORAD SPORTS LAW JOURNAL 299 (2014)

Bill Heller, Conflicts of interest in the professional sports context: the ethical obligations of an in-house counsel,  24 SETON HALL JOURNAL OF SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW 29 (2014)

Roberto Hernandez & Kimberly Rios, Chicago Prize Hoops: guiding at-risk youth to build stronger communities, 7 DEPAUL JOURNAL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE 271 (2014)

Samuel D. Hodge, Jr. & Shilpa Kadoo, A heads-up on traumatic brain injuries in sports, 17 JOURNAL OF HEALTH CARE LAW & POLICY 155 (2014)

Steffi Jose, Note, From Sport’s kangaroo court to Supreme Court: how the Court of Arbitration for Sport can legitimize anti-doping law, 20 SOUTHWESTERN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 401 (2014)

Matt Kalthoff, Note, Out of sight, out of mind: confronting the legal, economic and social issues raised by Major League Baseball’s peculiar treatment of foreign talent, 29 CONNECTICUT JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 353 (2014)

Scott Kestenbaum, Note, Uniform alternative dispute resolution: the answer to preventing unscrupulous agent activity, 14 PEPPERDINE DISPUTE RESOLUTION LAW JOURNAL 55 (2014)

Ryan M. Knight, Note, A football monopoly: the lack of parity and financial responsibility in today’s game, 20 ILSA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL &COMPARATIVE LAW 107 (2013)

Lewis Kurlantzick & B.J. Pivonka, League ownership of teams, conflicts of interest, and personnel exchanges, 24 FORDHAM INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT LAW JOURNAL 997 (2014)

Genevieve Lakier, Sport as speech, 16 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 1109 (2014)

Tara E. Langvardt, Reinforcing the commercial-noncommercial distinction: a framework for accommodating First Amendment interests in the right of publicity, 13 VIRGINIA SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW JOURNAL 167 (2014)

Brandon Leibsohn, Road to recovery: the NCAA’s new enforcement process creates more legal headaches, 21 SPORTS LAWYERS JOURNAL 123 (2014)

Tom C.W. Lin, National pastime(s), reviewing John Sexton, Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game, 55 BOSTON COLLEGE LAW REVIEW 1197 (2014)

Edan Lisovicz, Comment, Protecting home: are MLB’s television market protections reasonable under antitrust law?, 24 SETON HALL JOURNAL OF SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW 203 (2014)

Sarah Longhofer, Note, Contracting away sovereignty: the case of Brazil, FIFA, and the agreement for the right to host the 2014 World Cup, 23 TRANSATIONAL LAW & CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS 147 (2014)

Paul M. Lopez et al., Valuation of the professional sports franchise in bankruptcy: it’s a whole differentball game, 18 LEWIS & CLARK LAW REVIEW 299 (2014)

Heather MacGillivray, Comment, Where is the awareness in concussion awareness: can concussed players really assume the risk in a concussed state?,  21 JEFFREY S. MOORAD SPORTS LAW JOURNAL 529 (2014)

Nolan McCready, Former student-athletes' property and due process rights: the NCAA as state actor in the wake of the Penn State sanctions, 19 NEXUS 111 (2013-2014)

Jeffrey C. Meehan, Harvard or hardball? An examination of ethical issues faced by lawyer-agents, 21 SPORTS LAWYERS JOURNAL 45 (2014)

Matthew T. Mierswa, Note, Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king: the battle to legalize sports betting in the Garden State, 38 SETON HALL LEGISLATION JOURNAL 447 (2014) 

Matthew J. Mitten & Aaron Hernandez, The Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961: a comparative analysis of its effects on competitive balance in the NFL and NCAA Division I FBS football, 39 OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 745 (2013)

Matthew Mitten & Stephen F. Ross, A regulatory solution to better promote the educational values and economic sustainability of intercollegiate athletics, 92 OREGON LAW REVIEW 837(2014)

Rick Nolan, Comment, NCAA’s call to the bullpen: bring in Congress to save the college game with an antitrust exemption, 15 FLORIDA COASTAL LAW REVIEW 447 (2014)

Chad Nold, Olympic-sized opportunity: examining the IOC’s past neglect of human rights in host cities and the chance to encourage reform on a global scale, 11 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL LAW REVIEW 161 (2014)

Nicolas A. Novy, “The emperor has no clothes”: the NCAA’s last chance as the middle man in college athletics, 21 SPORTS LAWYERS JOURNAL 227 (2014)

Melanie A. Orphanos, Note, NFL’s litigation skates onto the ice, 20 CONNECTICUT INSURANCE LAW JOURNAL 635(2013-2014) 

Kristine E. Ortiz, National Football Scouting, Inc. v. Rang: copyrightability and fair use of player performance grades, 21 SPORTS LAWYERS JOURNAL 281 (2014)

Joshua M. Peles, Note, The most expensive seats in the house: how sports franchises and sports networks profit at fans’ expense, 13 VIRGINIA SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW JOURNAL  295 (2014)

Brian L. Porto, What recruiters don’t tell athletes and athletes don’t think to ask: a critique of NCAA’s nonacademic eligibility rules, 13 VIRGINIA SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAWJOURNAL  240 (2014)

Brian L. Porto, New rules for an old game: recent changes to the NCAA enforcement process and some suggestions for the future, 92 OREGON LAW REVIEW 1057 (2014)

Josephine (Jo) R. Potutoet al., What’s in a name? The collegiate mark, the collegiate model, and the treatment of student athletes, 92 OREGON LAW REVIEW 879 (2014)

K. Adam Pretty, Note, Dropping the ball: the failure of the NCAA to address concussions in college football, 89 NOTRE DAME LAW REVIEW 2359 (2014)

Jennifer Pusch, Comment, Urban struggles: an analysis of Title IX and urban high school athletic opportunities for girls, 29 WISCONSIN JOURNAL OF LAW, GENDER & SOCIETY 317 2014)

Brittany K. Puzey, Note, Title IX and baseball: how the contact sports exemption denies women equal opportunity to America’s pastime, 14 NEVADA LAW JOURNAL 1000 (2014)

David Stephen Rivard, Jr., Note, Through the eyes of the spectator: solving personal streaming of live sports under the current copyright regime through federal misappropriation, 13 APPALACHIAN JOURNAL OF LAW 197 (2014)

Christian Schmed, Comment, Official timeout on the field: critics have thrown a red flag and are challenging the NFL’s tax-exempt status, calling for it to be revoked, 21 JEFFREY S. MOORAD SPORTS LAW JOURNAL 577 (2014)

Arielle Simkins, Comment, Illegal substitution: did the NFL replacement referees create an abnormally dangerous working condition for players under federal law?, 24 SETON HALL JOURNAL OF SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW 263 (2014)

Susan L. Smith & Miriam Shuchman, Sickle cell screening of college athletes: legal obligations fulfilled, moral obligations lacking, 92 OREGON LAW REVIEW 1127 (2014)

@jeffstanden, The next labor market in college sports, 92 OREGON LAW REVIEW 1093 (2014)

@jeffstanden, The demise of the African American baseball player, 18 LEWIS & CLARK LAW REVIEW 421 (2014)

Kerri Lynn Stone, Lessons from the Dolphins/Richie Incognito saga, 14 NEVADA LAW JOURNAL 723 (2014)

Charles A. Sullivan, The Buzzer sounds for the Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law, 24 SETON HALL JOURNAL OF SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW 1 (2014)

Graham C. Talley, Legislative Note, Hundred-dollar handshakes, million-dollar lawsuits: Act 1324—providing a civil right of action by Arkansas universities for losses resulting from NCAA violations, 67 ARKANSAS LAW REVIEW 481 (2014)

Michael Telis, Note, Playing through the haze: the NFL concussion litigation and Section 301 preemption, 102 GEORGETOWN LAW JOURNAL 1841 (2014)

Jeffrey J. Tiedeman, MLB international player draft: home run or headache?, 21 SPORTS LAWYERS JOURNAL 255 (2014)

Tayler W. Tibbitts, Sports consumers: ticket-holding fans’ rights in light of “Spursgate,”  21 SPORTS LAWYERS JOURNAL 201 (2014)

Katherine D. Tohanczyn, Case Note, Fumble!: how the North Carolina courts dropped the ball in McAdoo v, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 21 JEFFREY S. MOORAD SPORTS LAW JOURNAL 385 (2014)

J. Russell VerSteeg, A case for a bill recognizing primary assumption of risk as limiting liability for persons and providers who take part in sports & recreational activities, 36 UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS LITTLE ROCK LAW REVIEW 57 (2013)

Anne Villella & T.K. Keen, Into the wild: can regulation of wilderness recreational activities improve safety and reduce search and rescue incidents?, 21 JEFFREY S. MOORAD SPORTS LAW JOURNAL 323 (2014)

Howard M. Wasserman, The economics of the Infield Fly Rule, 2013 UTAH LAW REVIEW 479

Joshua D. Winneker et al., Who let the dogs out: should a stadium owner be held liable for injuries sustained from a mascot’s errant hot dog toss?,  21 JEFFREY S. MOORAD SPORTS LAW JOURNAL 369(2014)