Videos tagged with Sports and Entertainment Law

  • A panel discussion featuring Jay S. Bilas T'86, L'92, ESPN College Basketball Analyst and Of Counsel, Moore & Van Allen; Gabriel Feldman T'95, L'99, Associate Professor of Law, Director of Tulane Sports Law Program, and Associate Provost for NCAA Compliance, Tulane University; Paul H. Haagen, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Sports Law and Policy, Duke University; and Robin (Green) Harris T'87, L'93, Executive Director, The Ivy League. Moderated by James E. Coleman, Jr., Faculty Chair of the Duke University Athletic Council and John S.

  • College basketball analyst Jay Bilas '92 and Professor Paul Haagen discuss the increasingly controversial amateurism model in major college sports. Sponsored by Duke's Sports & Entertainment Law Society.

  • The Sports and Entertainment Law Society is excited to bring Alan Fishel L'86, a partner at Arent Fox and a Duke Law alumnus, to speak about the legality of the current BCS system and to talk about possible alternatives to the current system.

    Recorded on October 11, 2011.

    Appearing: Alan Fishel '86 (Arent Fox), speaker.

  • Representatives of Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Football League, and individual professional athletes joined moderator Jay Bilas T '86, L '92 for a panel discussion of the internationalization of American professional team sports during the Duke Center for Sports and the Laws inaugural event on Dec. 9 at Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York City.

  • Sonny Vaccaro, the trailblazing shoe company executive who created the high school summer basketball scene and signed many of the game's greatest stars - including Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant - to endorsement contracts, discusses his career and future goals. Vaccaro, who has worked for Nike, Adidas, and Reebok, highlights the structure of endorsement deals as well as his plans to launch a national basketball academy.

    Recorded on April 12, 2007.

    Full title: Hoop Dreams: How Sonny Vaccaro Revolutionized the Business of Basketball.

  • Join Len Elmore, ESPN commentator and attorney for LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, as he discusses his life and career straddling the fields of sports and the law.

    Recorded on April 05, 2007.

    Appearing: Len Elmore (ESPN and LaBoef, Lamb, Greee & MacRae), speaker.

  • Dr. Hershkowitz, of the Natural Resources Defense Council, presents the "green" partnerships he's formed with the Oscars, the Philadelphia Eagles, Warner Music, etc., and how these deals are doing big things for the environment.

    Recorded on March 19, 2007.

  • A panel that includes Duke Law Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky, John Bussian of the Bussian Law Firm, Vinson & Elkins media litigator Thomas Leatherbury, and Los Angeles Times legal affairs reporter Henry Weinstein discuss recent developments in law affecting the news media, including such high profile cases as the jailing of former New York Times reporter Judith Miller and sentences given to two San Francisco Chronicle reporters for refusing to testify in the BALCO steroids case.

  • Panel discussion with Professor Michael McCann (Mississippi College School of Law), and Duke Law Professors Barak Richman, and Paul Haagen.of legal issues associated with age restrictions in professional sports.

    Recorded on February 02, 2006.

  • Big Muscles=Big Money What Can and Should Be Done to Control the Use of Performance-Enhancing Drugs in the Sports World?

    A panel will address the complex issues of regulating doping in professional and amateur sports including: Is federal legislation appropriate? Is it fair? Does testing work? What are the economic and health benefits and risks to the athletes? To the fans?

    Recorded on November 08, 2005.

  • Reed Hundt, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) during the Clinton Administration, will speak on the relationship between government, technology, and culture in dealing with such issues as indecency and censorship in the 21st Century. Sponsored by the Sports and Entertainment Law Society.

    Recorded on April 06, 2005.

    Full title: Government, Technology, & Culture: From Janet Jackson to iPod & Beyond.

    Appearing: Speaker: Reed Hundt.