The End of Amateurism, Unionization and Antitrust: The Legal Challenges Facing Collegiate AthleticsSKU: SPL500
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DescriptionThe United States is the only country in the world to have a highly evolved and revenue producing intercollegiate sports structure. Taken as a whole, college sports in the U.S. would be the third largest sports league behind only the NFL and MLB, generating somewhere between $6-$9 billion dollars annually. In positioning institutions of higher learning, sports may hold a place that is even more crucial than the dollars they produce as they can transform a university from the standpoint of perception. But the system of amateurism that has been in place in collegiate athletics is under legal attack, the NCAA which has regulated college sports is under significant antitrust challenge and in the Spring of 2014 the National Labor Relations Board has issued a regional decision calling scholarship college football players at Northwestern University employees and opening the a union. This CLE session will examine the range of issues that appear likely to transform college sports over the next decade and why the system that has been in place for so long is likely to change. If you are a fan, a parent, someone who represents interests in and around college sports this CLE session will be of great interest. It will explore the sometimes competing legal theories based in antitrust law and labor law being developed by college athletes in the O'Bannon case and Northwestern NLRB decision, identify the major players and help assess the implication to the games, the athletes and the institutions. 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. |
