This casebook introduces students to the fundamentals of labor, antitrust, and intellectual property law as applied in the professional and amateur sporting industries. It covers the unique office of the league commissioner; the contract, antitrust, and labor law dimensions of the player-labor market; the peculiar institution of the player agent in a unionized industry; the economic and legal implications of agreements among league owners and responses to rival leagues; the system of commercialized college athletics governed by the NCAA and how law impacts individual sports like golf, tennis and boxing; as well as the structure and operation of international Olympic sports. It also covers issues of statutory interpretation, administrative law, and torts before a variety of forums, including state and federal courts, agencies, and arbitration. The new edition updates material on the business of sports with the latest antitrust, preemption, drug testing and labor relations cases.

Sports and the Law: Text, Cases and Problems (American Casebook Series)

Ross,Stephen

Weiler, Paul

Roberts, Gary

Abrams, Roger

Specialties

West Academic Publishing

This product covers a portion of the large array of privately written rules defining what sports players can and cannot do--rules contained in constitutions and bylaws governing professional sports leagues and individual sports tours. League, National Collegiate Athletic Association, and other sports constitutions, as well as collective bargaining agreements, can be hundreds of pages long. The authors have included excerpts that are of greatest assistance to readers.

Sports and the Law: Text, Cases and Problems, 4th, Documentary and Statutory Supplement (American Casebook Series)

The sixth edition of this leading casebook explores legal issues in both professional and amateur sports, organized to provide instructors with flexibility to cover selected doctrinal areas or industry sectors. Extended treatment is given to the key subjects of labor, antitrust, intellectual property, and the law of private associations. The casebook also covers the unique office of the league commissioner and its special concerns with the “best interests of sports”; the contract, antitrust, and labor law dimensions of the player-labor market; the role of the player agent in a unionized industry; the economic and legal implications of agreements among league owners and responses to rival leagues; the system of college athletics as governed by the NCAA and subject to Title IX; and the operation of international Olympic sports. Key features include: 
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<li>Recent landmark Supreme Court decisions affecting the entire sports industry, including legalizing sports gambling (Murphy v. NCAA) and affirming trademark free speech (Matal v. Tam)</li>
<li>Updated materials on sports league commissioner disciplinary authority and judicial review of sports league arbitration awards</li>
<li>Updated materials on the business of sports, with exercises on the business dynamics of sports labor markets and on league decision-making about commercial practices</li>
<li>Reorganized chapter on agent representation of the athlete, with new coverage of foundational principles of agency law</li>
<li>Key decisions affecting college athletics, involving antitrust challenges to amateurism (In re NCAA Athletic Grant-in-Aid Cap Antitrust Litigation and Deppe v. NCAA) and penalties for rules infractions (UNC Public Infractions Decision)</li>
<li>Expanded materials on the function, regulatory apparatus, and activities of the NCAA</li>
<li>Reorganized chapter on international and Olympic sports, covering recent cases involving doping and hyperandrogenism</li>
<li>Expanded materials on athlete health and safety, including claims related to concussions and prescription drug abuse.</li>
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Sports and the Law: Text, Cases, and Problems (American Casebook Series)

Harper, Michael

Balsam, Jodi

Berry III, William

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