A new academic study examining professional Counter-Strike esports competitions found that female players receive fewer views and earn less prize money than male players, even after accounting for measures of performance. The study, “Gender, Performance, and Prize Money: A Study of Pay Discrimination Against Female Teams in eSports,” was published in 2026 in Humanities and…
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(Editor’s Note: Here are five schools (21-25) to be so recognized. We will highlight five more a day over the next three business days. The full article appears in Sports Litigation Alert on Thursday night) By Oliver Canning The world of sports law is rapidly transitioning from a niche specialization to an exploding multidisciplinary field.…
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100lawfirms.com is a portal that recognizes excellence and serves as a resource for those in need of experienced and capable legal counsel in the sports law arena. Hackney Publications announced today that it has published the sixth annual “100 Law Firms with Sports Law Practices You Need to Know About,” which is a directory that serves…
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Hackney Publications (HP), the nation’s leading publisher of sports law periodicals, will publish its 6th annual list of “100 Law Firms with Sports Law Practice Groups You Need to Know About” on March 16. It won’t be easy identifying the top 100 for the portal, which recognizes excellence and serves as a resource for those…
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Attorneys who subscribe to Sports Litigation Alert primarily benefit from staying current on legal developments in the sports industry, accessing a vast archive of case law summaries, and having opportunities to publish their own articles. These benefits enable attorneys to: Stay Abreast of Current Law: The bi-weekly newsletter delivers timely case summaries and articles on relevant sports law…
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Professors use Sports Litigation Alert in the classroom primarily to supplement textbooks with current, real-world case studies, fostering better in-class discussion and allowing students to apply legal concepts to up-to-date issues. Key benefits for a professor include: Currency of Information: Textbooks can quickly become outdated in the fast-moving field of sports law. The bi-weekly Alert provides timely summaries…
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(Editor’s Note: the following is shared from Esports and the Law, a free publication to industry participants available at https://esportsandthelaw.com/) Hero Esports, the largest esports company in Asia, participated this winter in the LEAP Conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where Danny Tang, Co-Founder and CEO of Hero Esports, joined fellow panelists including HRH Prince Faisal…
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Hackney Publications announced today that it has published the fifth annual “100 Law Firms with Sports Law Practices You Need to Know About,” a portal that serves as a resource for those in the sports industry who need experienced and capable legal counsel. The law firms are listed alphabetically, a testament to the difficulty in actually…
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The EsportsTravel Summit is the world’s largest gathering of esports tournament and video-game event organizers and the only business conference focused on the travel side of the esports industry. Organized by the Northstar Meetings Group, the 2025 summit will be staged June 16–18, in Bloomington, Minnesota, a destination that has activated successful esports events at…
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Hackney Publications announced today a client referral program, leveraging 25 years of editing and publishing experience in the sports law field to pair potential legal clients with sports lawyers. Those “friends of Hackney Publications,” defined as subscribers and sponsors, will receive notification when a potential legal client reaches out through Sportslawexpert.com (https://sportslawexpert.com/seeking-a-sports-lawyer/) as well as…
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