St. John’s School of Law Center for Labor and Employment Law presented Labor Relations and the Future of Professional Baseball Nov. 18, 2011. (We apologize for not posting before the event: despite our best efforts we sometimes get behind in our email.) mw
The AALS Section on Education Law and Section on Sports Law, together with the Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues, solicit papers on the Application of Title IX to Bullying and Harassment in Schools. Accepted papers will be included in a symposium published in the Western New England Law Review. One or more papers will also be selected for presentation during the Sections’ joint program at the AALS Annual Meeting, Jan. 5, 2012, 2-5 pm. The submission deadline is Aug. 1, 2011. The full call for papers is on Feminist Law Professors. mw
Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in federally-funded educational institutions, turns 40 years old in 2012. At the 2012 Annual Meeting of the AALS in Washington D.C., the Section on Education Law and the Section on Sports and Law, with a co-sponsorship from the Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues, will sponsor an extended program to look at the current state of Title IX’s application to a variety of issues including bullying and harassment, the subject of this call for papers. The deadline date for submission is August 1, 2011. Jump to full post
The Seton Hall Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law will host its annual Symposium on February 15, 2011 (4:30-9 pm). This year’s symposium will focus on the professional and ethical dilemmas confronting attorneys representing athletes and entertainers.
The Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal’s Annual Spring Symposium, The Tiger Woods Effect: The Uncertain and Turbulent Future of Endorsement Deals, Morals Clauses, and Reverse-Morals Clauses, will take place March 4, 2010, 7-9 p.m. mw
The University of Florida Levin College of Law’s 2010 Sports Law Symposium, entitled Discussion: Bargaining Collectively, will take place Jan. 29, 2010. It is presented by the UF Entertainment and Sports Law Society. mw
The Indian Journal of Law and Technology (IJLT) is an annual law journal published by the Law and Technology Committee of the Student Bar Association, at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore, India. IJLT is the first and only law journal in India specifically devoted to the field of technology law. The previous issues of IJLT have featured articles by distinguished authors such as Yochai Benkler, Donald S. Chisum, Raymond T. Nimmer, John Frow, Jonathan Zittrain, Lawrence Liang and Shamnad Basheer.
The submissions to the Journal are selected for publication on the basis of a peer-review mechanism conducted through an external Article Review Board consisting of academicians and experts in the field of technology law. The Journal is edited by an Editorial Board consisting of students from the National Law School of India University selected on an annual basis through a selection process that tests them on their editing skills and knowledge in the concerned areas of law.
The Journal accepts academic submissions in the form of articles, notes, comments or book reviews on a host of legal issues regarding the interface between law and technology, including e-commerce, cyber crime, biotechnology, bioethics, competition law, outsourcing, intellectual property, related public policy, and law and society issues posed by new technology. The Journal is also oriented towards publishing academic work that considers the aforementioned is sues from a comparative perspective and/or the perspective of the developing world.
The Editorial Board invites submissions for Volume No. 6 of 2010. The Journal follows a rolling submissions policy and the deadline for the forthcoming volume is 15 December 2009. The submissions received after this date shall be considered for the next volume. The submissions must relate to any of the broad themes mentioned above or any other law and technology-related theme.
The full call for papers is on IJLT’s website. mw
Florida Coastal School of Law presents the 2009 Sports Law Symposium, NCAA Coaches’ Contracts: Diversity and Negotiating Value in the 21st Century, April 17, 2009, 10:30-2:30. It is sponsored by the Coastal Law Center for Law and Sports and the Coastal Law Sports Law Society.
The University of Baltimore School of Law hosts its first annual sports law symposium, From Rookie to Retirement: The NFL Universe in the New Economy, Feb. 26, 2009.
The Green Bag Almanac & Reader seeks submissions on baseball and the law for its 2010 volume.
We are seeking submissions for our 2010 Almanac & Reader, which will have a baseball-and-the-law theme. We want scholarly essays on topics related to baseball and the law. We hope to select 12 essays, each between 1500 and 5000 words long. Topics in which we are particularly (but not exclusively) interested are: (a) baseball and … civil rights law; criminal law; defamation law; intellectual property law; international law; labor law; media law; property law; tax law; tort law; transportation law; (b) baseball players who were or became lawyers; and (c) roles played by lawyers in baseball.
Please send your proposals for papers to editors [at] greenbag.org.
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