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Segal McCambridge Hires Carla Varriale-Barker, Establishes Practice Group Serving Sports, Recreation, Amusement, and Hospitality Industries

March 3, 2020

Segal McCambridge, a national litigation firm that added its first office in Florida last month, has announced that Carla Varriale-Barker has joined the firm as a shareholder in the New York office. She will lead a practice group focused on the sports, recreation, amusement, and hospitality industries. An experienced and creative litigator, Varriale-Barker has a…
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Latest Edition of Managing Sport Facilities Is Out

February 21, 2020

You don’t have to be a professor, or student to appreciate Managing Sport Facilities, Fourth Edition With Web Study Guide, which was recently published by Human Kinetics. Written by Gil B. Fried, editor in chief of Sports Facilities and the Law, and Matthew Kastel, the Stadium Manager – Oriole Park at Camden Yards at Maryland…
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Pedagogy in Sport Law Classes: Using Sports Litigation Alert Effectively and Creatively

December 24, 2019

By Linda A. Sharp, J.D. There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. — Jean Giraudoux 1882-1944 Those of us who teach sport law know that it is a demanding discipline pedagogically. Not only must we have a command of basic legal principles in a variety of substantive areas, e.g.,…
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SRLA Set to Host Annual Conference in Louisville

December 8, 2019

The Sport and Recreation Law Association (SRLA) has announced it will hold its 33rd annual conference on March 4-7, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. By way of background, SRLA serves academicians and practitioners in private and public sport and recreation settings. Its members have diverse educational and experiential backgrounds and represent a variety of occupations and interests. They…
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Feldman to Hold Newly-Endowed Sher Garner Professorship in Sports Law, Nation’s First Such Professorship Dedicated to Sports Law

October 28, 2019

Tulane University’s nationally recognized Sports Law Program will now be led by the nation’s first fully endowed professorship dedicated to sports law – Professor Gabe Feldman. Alumni and longtime supporters Leopold and Karen Sher and James and Tracie Garner have endowed the Sher Garner Professorship in Sports Law. The professorship will be held by Professor…
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Texas A&M Introduces Hand-Held Metal Detectors Today

October 26, 2019

Guests today at the Texas A&M Football game vs. Mississippi State may encounter a new security measure – walk through and hand-held metal detectors – when they enter the stadium. In preparation for Southeastern Conference-mandated enhanced security measures in the fall of 2020, Texas A&M will begin implementing walk through and hand-held metal detectors at…
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Sports Facilities and the Law Enters Third Year with Editor in Chief Gil Fried at the Helm

October 20, 2019

Sports Facilities and the Law (SFL), a periodical that reports on legal and risk management developments involving sports facilities, is well into its third year of publication. Leading the effort is Gil Fried, a sport management professor at the University of New Haven, as well as an illustrious advisory board of attorneys and facility management…
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10 Years and Running – Sports Litigation Alert Is Being Used More Than Ever in Sports Law Classroom

July 4, 2019

With the fall semester, Sports Litigation Alert celebrates its tenth year of being a staple in the Sports Law classroom, where professors and instructors use it as a replacement for expensive textbooks, or at least a supplement for the textbook, which is frequently dated by the time it is published. For background purposes, the Alert…
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HHPR Faculty Member Josh Lens Publishes Two Sport Law Articles in Top Journals

June 27, 2019

Josh Lens, a clinical assistant professor of recreation and sport management in the Department of Health, Human Performance and Recreation at the University of Arkansas, wrote an article recently about the ramifications of agents who represent college coaches and recruit student-athletes from the coaches’ programs. The Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal published the article…
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Team Executives Discuss NBA Front Office Practices

May 8, 2019

(Editor’s Note: The following was written by Drew Berube, a rising third-year law student at the University of Miami School of Law. The full article appears in Professional Sports and the Law.) On April 4, 2019, the annual University of Miami School of Law, Global Entertainment and Sports Law + Industry Conference, hosted a panel…
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