The National Sports Law Institute of Marquette University Law School has announced that its annual fall conference, “Perspectives on 35 Years of Sports Law,” will he held on October 18, 2024.
Foley & Lardner LLP and its Sports & Entertainment Group, the Law Office of Martin J. Greenberg LLC, and the Sports & Entertainment Law Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin wlll serve as sponsors of the event.
The program will feature presentations from sports law professors and scholars providing perspectives on the development of sports law and its impact on antitrust law, labor law, Olympic sports and arbitration, gambling, esports, disability and mental health, constitutional rights, gender equity, and race and representation. The conference will also feature a report on teaching sports law at U.S. law schools, and a presentation on the creation of the National Sports Law Institute at Marquette University Law School.
The program will run from 9 am until @5:30 pm, in the Lubar Center on the first floor of Eckstein Hall, the home of Marquette University Law School.
Among the conference participants are:
- Professor Paul Anderson (L’95), Director, Sports Law Program and National Sports Law Institute, Marquette University Law School, and Chair and Founder, Sports Law Alumni Association
- Professor Lauren McCoy Coffey (L’09), Director of Graduate Academic Services, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC; member, Sports Law Alumni Association
- Professor Martin J. Greenberg (L’68), founder, National Sports Law Institute, retired Adjunct Professor, Marquette University Law School; Managing Member, Law Office of Martin J. Greenberg, LLC, Milwaukee, WI; and member NSLI Board of Advisors
- Aaron Hernandez (L’13), Assistant Dean and Executive Director of the Allan Bud Selig Sports Law and Business Program, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ; and member, Sports Law Alumni Association and NSLI Board of Advisors
- Professor Richard McLaren, O.C. {Officer of the Order of Canada}; Professor of Law, Western University, London, Canada; Counsel to McKenzie Lake Lawyers LLP; Barrister & Solicitor Law Society of Ontario; and Member Court of Arbitration for Sport, Lausanne, Switzerland; and member, NSLI Board of Advisors
- Professor Matthew Mitten, Professor of Law, and Executive Director, National Sports Law Institute, Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee, WI
- Professor Elana Olson, Director, Eckstein Law Library & Labor & Employment Law Program, and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee, WI; and member, NSLI Board of Advisors
- Professor Barbara Osborne, joint appointment in Exercise and Sport Science and the School of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
- Professor Roger Quiles, Founding Partner, Quiles Law, New York, NY; Adjunct Professor of Law, Marquette University Law School; and member, NSLI Board of Advisors
- Professor Maureen Arellano Weston, Professor of Law & Director of the Entertainment Media Sports Law Program, Pepperdine University, School of Law, Malibu, CA; and member, NSLI Board of Advisors
- Professor John Wolohan, Professor of Sports Law, David B. Falk College of Sport, and Professor of Law, College of Law (by courtesy appointment) Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
To register for the event, visit https://law.marquette.edu/2024-10-18/national-sports-law-institute-35th-anniversary-annual-conference
