More Than Just Force Majeure: The Legal Aspects of Sports During and After the Covid-19 PandemicSKU: SPL2100
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Live Webinar
October
22
Thu 10/22/2020
1:00PM - 2:30PM
Eastern Time (EDT)
DescriptionThis CLE course will provide a broad overview of the significant legal aspects of sports business affected both during and in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, analyzing legal, contractual, risk and economic challenges faced by principally North American sports leagues, teams, unions, and players and contracts. The course will begin its focus on how the Covid-19 pandemic affected sports- looking at the different approaches leagues and governing entities have taken in postponing games and events, how these decisions have then affected contractual commitments, including: player contracts; sponsorship; and broadcast relations. The course will take an in-depth look at several different types of Force Majeure clauses and language currently in use in making the point that the Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated the need for new types of frustration of purpose, impossibility, risk allocation, and tolling language in every commercial contract. But going further than just the contract language the course will examine how each of the major sports and events may fare in returning to play, what specific risks and challenges face each and how these challenges may be overcome in various ways. Subjects discussed in this context include: the legal environment surround waivers of damage and liability for players, fans or others contracting Covid-19 at sports events; the legal precautions and immunities sought before reopening or resuming, the challenges to current contractual revenue streams in sports both in the immediate and near future. Lecturer BioRobert Boland, A.B., J.D.Robert Boland, J.D. a nationally known sports law professor and practitioner joined the faculty at Seton Hall Law, after serving five years in a first of its kind national role as Athletics Integrity Officer at Penn State University. The role which was created by consent decree in the aftermath of the Sandusky crisis helped ensure that Penn State's Athletic Department which was a $180 million dollar annual revenue producer with more than 350 employees was meeting all standards imposed by law and NCAA and Big Ten Rule. Boland had reporting relationships with the President and Board of Trustees. He also held teaching appointments in Penn State's Law School and School of Labor and Employment Relations. Prior to joining Penn State, Boland was a faculty member for 15 years, leading acclaimed sports management programs at New York University (2001-2015), where he was Academic Chair of the Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management and the founding professor of its graduate sports management program, and at Ohio University (2015-2017) where he served as the director of the MBA/Masters of Sports Administration program which has been ranked as the world's top graduate program in sports administration 8 of the last 10 years by Sports Business International, including the two years Boland led the program. He also taught at New York University Law School, where he created and co-taught a sports law class with the legendary Professor Arthur Miller. Boland is a widely sought-after expert on sports business and sports law subjects with his comments appearing in national media outlets over the last two decades. He's also published in several leading law journals and has a book on Name, Image, and Likeness under contract. |
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