ISBN: 9798889060505

Category: Law / Sports

Page count: 992

<p> Buy a <b>new version </b>of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook on Casebook Connect, including lifetime access to the <b>online ebook</b> with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities. Access also includes an <b>outline tool</b> and other <b>helpful resources</b>. Connected eBooks provide what you need most to be successful in your law school classes. </p><br><i>Sports Law and Regulation </i>provides a comprehensive and timely discussion of youth, high school, college, Olympic, and professional sports legal issues, including gender and racial equity, health, safety, risk management, and intellectual property law issues. A comprehensive collection of cases and materials provides balanced perspectives and flexible coverage, while the organization provides instructors the flexibility to cover selected sections or chapters for a separate course in either Amateur Sports Law or Professional Sports Law. <i>Sports Law and Regulation </i>contains the appropriate amount of introductory and explanatory materials, notes, and questions to facilitate students’ understanding as well as hypothetical problems for applying new knowledge.<br><br><b>New to the 6th Edition:</b><ul><li> Updated cases regarding speech and religion at the high school level including <i>Mahanoy Area Sch. Dist. v. B.L. </i>and <i>Kennedy v. Bremerton School District</i></li><li> The new NCAA Constitution and governance structure, revised NCAA bylaws, transfer eligibility, NIL, agent interactions, and amendments to the NCAA’s enforcement and penalty structure, along with <i>NCAA v. Alston</i></li><li> An updated comment on concussions that includes recent cases, state legislation seeking to reduce the incidence of concussions, and settlements of concussion-related disputes between claimants and the NCAA, NFL, and NHL </li><li> A streamlined coaching chapter including discussion of coaches’ involvement in the college admissions and basketball scandals and an updated coaching contract negotiation exercise </li><li> Provisions of the NBA, WNBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, MLS, and NWSL collective bargaining agreements; updated league regulations regarding cannabis use; discussion of minor league baseball players’ unionization; and the 2019 revisions to the Uniform Athlete Agents Act and <i>Williamson v. Prime Sports Mktg., LLC</i></li><li> Revised Olympic and international sports law materials, including a recent CAS award interpreting the 2021 World Anti-Doping Code, a revised anti-doping problem, a CAS award regarding the legality of excluding Russian athletes from international sports events, and a Swiss Federal Tribunal case recognizing the independence of the CAS Anti-Doping Division </li><li> Updated racial demographic data for coaching and administrative positions in collegiate and professional sport and discussion of coach Brian Flores’ historic racial discrimination lawsuit against the NFL and its clubs </li><li> An updated gender equity chapter that includes new Title IX regulations, sexual orientation discrimination issues, the participation rights of transgender and intersex athletes and new Olympic and NCAA policies </li><li> New commentary questioning the baseball rule as applied to absolve stadium owners of liability to spectators, and recent developments regarding the standards for assessing the liability of co-participants </li></ul><br><b>Professors and students will benefit from:</b><ul><li> Landmark historical cases and significant recent cases that reflect the current law regulating the sports industry </li><li> Notes and Questions that suggest philosophical, sociological, psychological, and economic policy issues and themes </li><li> Flexible organization that supports different teaching objectives, ranging from a focus on amateur sports to professional sports law </li><li> Skill-building exercises in client counseling, negotiation, and contract drafting </li></ul>