By Professor John Banzhaf, George Washington University Following the lead of World Rugby, World Swimming, and the Rugby Football League, World Athletics has just banned most biological males who believe themselves to be female [often called trans women] from competing in female sporting events unless they avoided going through puberty as males. The organization’s stated…
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Hackney Publications announced today that it was making its latest issue of Sports Litigation Alert, published on February 24, 2023, the new sample issue on the site, a reflection of the issue’s “strength,” according to Editor and Publisher Holt Hackney. “We pride ourselves on providing provocative insight and thought leadership on the sports law issues…
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The 3rd Annual Seton Hall Law School Sports Law Symposium will be held February 15-16 with the theme of Sports in Time of Change. Presented by the Seton Hall Law School Gaming, Hospitality, Entertainment & Sports (GHamES) Initiative, the event’s organizers embrace an all-inclusive approach by offering a diverse slate of speakers and making it…
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Dr. Ellen J. Staurowsky, Professor, Sports Media at the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College, has accepted the role of Editor-in-Chief for Title IX Alert, a quarterly publication produced by Hackney Publications (HP). Dr. Staurowsky, a recipient of the Faculty Excellence Award three times (2002, 2009, and 2022), was already a Senior Writer for…
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From ChampionWomen this morning: Girls’ and women’s locker rooms have been designed exclusively for people who have female[1] bodies, and for good reasons. Those reasons include biological differences between women and men; women’s right to privacy; and protection from male violence against women in such forms as sexual harassment, assault, and rape. These reasons remain…
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Female student-athletes at Michigan State University capped a two-year battle against their school on Friday by securing an agreement guaranteeing that MSU will undergo a comprehensive Gender Equity Review, create a Gender Equity Plan, and bring all aspects of its intercollegiate athletic program into full Title IX compliance by the end of the 2026-2027 school…
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The new International Consortium on Female Sport(ICFS) launched globally, debuting January 9, 2023, as the preeminent international lobby group to advocate for the preservation of the female sport category worldwide. This comes at a time when more international governing sports bodies, including the International Olympic Committee (IOC), are opening female sport to male competitors. “Fifty…
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A second M2F transgender athlete has caused serious and possibly permanent injuries to a biological female opponent, this time in a hockey tournament where a much larger and more heavily muscled player crashed into a much smaller opponent, notes public interest law professor John Banzhaf, who says risk of serious injury creates a new strong…
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hackney Publications, the nation’s leading publisher of sports law periodicals, has announced new tools are being added to Sports Litigation Alert (Alert), a periodical that has been used in sports law classrooms for more than 15 years, which will make it even more useful for professors and their college students. “There’s a challenge in sports law classes…
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Seton Hall Law School will host a CLE on Monday, November 21, from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. EST on Women in the Sports Workplace. The program follows below: Calling a Foul: The Safety & Treatment of Women in the Sports Workplace Everyday there seems to be more news being reported about failures in the…
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