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Sports and the law : text, cases, and problems / by Paul C. Weiler, Friendly Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Gary R. Roberts, Dean Emeritus & Gerald L. Bepko Professor Indiana University, Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Roger I. Abrams, Richardson Professor of Law, Northeastern University, Stephen F. Ross, Professor of Law, Lewis H. Vovakis Distinguished, Faculty Scholar, the Pennsylvania State University, Michael C. Harper, Professor of Law and Barreca Labor Relations Scholar, Boston University, Jodi S. Balsam, Associate Professor of Clinical Law, Brooklyn Law School, William W. Berry III, Associate Professor of Law, Frank Montague, Jr. Professor of Legal Studies and Professionalism, the University of Mississippi School of Law.
- Title
- Sports and the law : text, cases, and problems / by Paul C. Weiler, Friendly Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Gary R. Roberts, Dean Emeritus & Gerald L. Bepko Professor Indiana University, Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Roger I. Abrams, Richardson Professor of Law, Northeastern University, Stephen F. Ross, Professor of Law, Lewis H. Vovakis Distinguished, Faculty Scholar, the Pennsylvania State University, Michael C. Harper, Professor of Law and Barreca Labor Relations Scholar, Boston University, Jodi S. Balsam, Associate Professor of Clinical Law, Brooklyn Law School, William W. Berry III, Associate Professor of Law, Frank Montague, Jr. Professor of Legal Studies and Professionalism, the University of Mississippi School of Law.
- Author
- Weiler, Paul C.,
- Publication
- St. Paul, MN : West Academic Publishing, [2019]
- ©2019
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- Description
- xxxvi, 1139 pages; 26 cm.
- Summary
- "[This] casebook explores legal issues in both professional and amateur sports ... 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."--
- Series Statement
- American casebook series
- Uniform Title
- American casebook series.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Casebooks (Law)
- Note
- "Table of cases": pages xxiii-xxxii.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Moral integrity of the sport : the role of the commissioner and the law -- Legal recognition of 'the best interests of the sport' -- Labor law and collective bargaining in professional sports -- Constructing a players market from contract and collective bargaining -- Basic principles of antitrust law applied to the special nature of the sports industry -- Antitrust regulation and business strategy in sports labor markets -- Business strategy and antitrust scrutiny of internal league regulation of inter-club competititon -- Sports broadcasting, merchandising, and intellectual property law -- Agent representation of the athlete -- Intercollegiate sports : due process and academic integrity -- Intercollegiate sports : commercialism and amateurism -- Gender discrimination in sports -- Individual sports -- International and olympic sports -- Personal injury from sports.
- ISBN
- 9781640202351
- 1640202358
- LCCN
- 2018299970
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries