Knicks Launch Unprecedented Attack on Commissioner Authority

By Christopher R. Deubert, Senior Writer Chapter 1 of Harvard Law Professor Peter Carfagna’s textbook “Sports and the Law” is entitled “The Moral Integrity of the Sport: The Role of the Commissioner and the Law.”  Starting with the Commissioner’s role is indicative of the importance of the Commissioner’s role and the deep and broad authority they historically have possessed, and generally still do.  A principal part of that authority is the power to adjudicate a variet