Cases, Materials And Problems On Sports And The Law

WEILER, PAUL C.

Reference

Thomson Publishing Group

Sports And The Law: 1995 CASE SUPPLEMENT

Sports And The Law: Text, Cases And Problems

Roberts, Gary R.

Intellectual Property

West

The materials cover a tiny portion of private legal regime. League, NCAA, and other sports constitutions sometimes run for hundreds of pages, as do collective bargaining agreements. The authors have included excerpts that are of greatest assistance to readers. 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.

Statutory And Documentary Supplement To Sports Amd The Law: Text, Cases, Problems (Statutory supplement)

West Academic

Covers various aspects of professional sports, including the unique office of the league commissioner, the many contract, antitrust, and labor law dimensions of the player-labor market, and the peculiar institution of the player agent in a unionized industry. Looks at the system of college athletics governed by the NCAA and how law impacts individual sports like golf, tennis, boxing, and the motor sports, as well as the structure and operation of international Olympic sports. Also focuses on tort and criminal law issues arising out of the personal injuries caused by sports.

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

Sports & Outdoors

West Group

Since Entertainment, Media & the Law was published, legal actions have been initiated involving numerous films, including Titanic, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Steven Spielberg’s Amistad, and Shakespeare in Love. The 2000 Supplement covers these cases, as well as actions involving John Travolta, The X-Files’ David Duchovny, Steven Bochco, Francis Ford Coppola, The Eagles’ Don Henley, and Pamela Anderson Lee, among others.

Weiler's 2000 Supplement to Entertainment, Media, and the Law: Text, Cases and Problems (American Casebook Series®)

Media & the Law

The world has been fascinated by the world of sports since ancient times. In recent decades escalating player salaries, owner demands for new stadiums and old teams' moves to new cities have made us more aware of the business of sports. Now, in the last several years, the general population has been exposed to the law of sports. While designed to teach serious law students about sports law, Weiler and Roberts Text, Cases and Problems on the Law of Sports, Second Edition remains a fan-friendly book. In fact, Professor Weiler is the author of the widely-praised Leveling the Playing Field: How the Law Can Make Sports Better for Fans (Harvard University Press, 2000). So, while addressing the interesting and complex legal issues, the authors remain sports fans. This is clear on every page of the book! The 2001 Supplement also covers the sports product market, franchise free agency, stadium subsidies, and the legal and economic treatment of sports events on the Internet and on television. Weiler and Roberts Text, Cases and Problems on the Law of Sports, Second Edition is a must have for anyone wanting to understand the complex and exciting area of the law, and the 2001 Supplement makes that book fully up-to-date.

2001 Supplement to Sports and The Law, 2nd Ed.

Specialties

Weiler (Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass.) demonstrates the myriad ways that legal doctrine, social and economic policy, and constitutional principle are reflected in the practices of the entertainment industry. New cases have been added to the second edition that reflect recent lawsuits, including those against the makers of a video game reputed to have influenced the killings at Columbine High School. Topics include antitrust and telecommunications law, defamation, legal restraints on sex and violence, copyright, contracts, corporate takeover, and labor law. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Entertainment, Media and the Law: Text, Cases, and Problems (American Casebook Series and Other Coursebooks)

The world of sports seems entwined with lawsuits. This is so, Paul Weiler explains, because of two characteristics intrinsic to all competitive sports. First, sporting contests lose their drama if the competition becomes too lopsided. Second, the winning athletes and teams usually take the "lion's share" of both fan attention and spending. So interest in second-rate teams and in second-rate leagues rapidly wanes, leaving one dominant league with monopoly power. 
 The ideal of evenly balanced sporting contests is continually challenged by economic, social, and technological forces. Consequently, Weiler argues, the law is essential to level the playing field for players, owners, and ultimately fans and taxpayers. For example, he shows why players' use of performance-enhancing drugs, even legal ones, should be treated as a more serious offense than, say, use of cocaine. He also explains why proposals to break up dominant leagues and create new ones will not work, and thus why both union representation of players and legal protection for fans--and taxpayers--are necessary. 
 Using well-known incidents--and supplying little-known facts--Weiler analyzes a wide array of moral and economic issues that arise in all competitive sports. He tells us, for example, how Commissioner Bud Selig should respond to Pete Rose's quest for admission to the Hall of Fame; what kind of settlement will allow baseball players and owners to avoid a replay of their past labor battles; and how our political leaders should address the recent wave of taxpayer-built stadiums.

Leveling the Playing Field: How the Law Can Make Sports Better for Fans

Harvard University Press

The world of sports seems entwined with lawsuits. This is so, Paul Weiler explains, because of two characteristics intrinsic to all competitive sports. First, sporting contests lose their drama if the competition becomes too lopsided. Second, the winning athletes and teams usually take the "lion's share" of both fan attention and spending. So interest in second-rate teams and in second-rate leagues rapidly wanes, leaving one dominant league with monopoly power.
 The ideal of evenly balanced sporting contests is continually challenged by economic, social, and technological forces. Consequently, Weiler argues, the law is essential to level the playing field for players, owners, and ultimately fans and taxpayers. For example, he shows why players' use of performance-enhancing drugs, even legal ones, should be treated as a more serious offense than, say, use of cocaine. He also explains why proposals to break up dominant leagues and create new ones will not work, and thus why both union representation of players and legal protection for fans--and taxpayers--are necessary. 
Using well-known incidents--and supplying little-known facts--Weiler analyzes a wide array of moral and economic issues that arise in all competitive sports. He tells us, for example, how Commissioner Bud Selig should respond to Pete Rose's quest for admission to the Hall of Fame; what kind of settlement will allow baseball players and owners to avoid a replay of their past labor battles; and how our political leaders should address the recent wave of taxpayer-built stadiums.

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Cases, Materials And Problems On Sports And The Law

Sports And The Law: 1995 CASE SUPPLEMENT

Sports And The Law: Text, Cases And Problems

Statutory And Documentary Supplement To Sports Amd The Law: Text, Cases, Problems (Statutory supplement)

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

Weiler's 2000 Supplement to Entertainment, Media, and the Law: Text, Cases and Problems (American Casebook Series®)

2001 Supplement to Sports and The Law, 2nd Ed.

Entertainment, Media and the Law: Text, Cases, and Problems (American Casebook Series and Other Coursebooks)

Leveling the Playing Field: How the Law Can Make Sports Better for Fans

Leveling the Playing Field: How the Law Can Make Sports Better for Fans