Product Description: The authors of the leading sports law casebook joined with two of the leaders in the sports law field to develop a problem-based sports law and governance text for undergraduate and graduate students. The text is presented in the traditional law school case method style, with a unique focus on how those regulatory and governance materials can be used to solve problems in sports, from issues like Deflategate to the future of big-time intercollegiate athletics...read more

Product Description: This casebook introduces students to the fundamentals of labor, antitrust, and intellectual property law as applied in the professional and amateur sporting industries. It covers the unique office of the league commissioner and special concerns with the “best interests of sports”; the contract, antitrust, and labor law dimensions of the player-labor market; the peculiar institution of the player agent in a unionized industry; the economic and legal implications of agreements among league owners and responses to rival leagues; the system of commercialized college athletics governed by the NCAA and how law impacts individual sports like golf, tennis and boxing; as well as the structure and operation of international Olympic sports...read more

Product Description: Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this practical analysis of sports law in the United States of Americadeals with the regulation of sports activity by both public authorities and private sports organizations...read more

Product Description: Understanding Sports Law provides an authoritative, insider's perspective on representing clients in virtually every area of legal practice, from contract negotiation and criminal/civil litigation to intellectual property and estate planning...read more

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Sports are hot, and getting hotter; college sports, professional sports, women's and men's sports, recreational sports, and activities of all kinds! Now more than ever, there is a need for well educated and well prepared recreation and sport managers. "LAW for Recreation and Sport Managers" addresses all the legal concepts within sport-related businesses and activities. Written in non-intimidating, easy-to-read language, this text is ideal for undergraduate or graduate courses in sport or recreational law. Many use it as an informative practical reference. The third edition of "LAW for Recreation and Sport Managers" is the most readable and timely edition yet. All the chapters have been revised and updated. Several new chapters and topics have been added, including: Property and Environmental Law; Business Structure and Legal Authority; International Law; Environment and Legislation; Criminal Liability for Violence in Sports; Details on Event Security since 9-11; and Nuisance Law.

This text introduces and builds upon the relationship between law and sports for undergraduate students and persons who may not have a background in law. Unlike other sports law texts, it focuses on teaching the fundamentals and provides real-world insights rather than offering cases with little substance. The book is well-organized and helps students not only understand the legal issues facing many players in the sports industry, but how to pursue involvement as a professional. With numerous Web sites and other references, students can conduct further research in specific areas. Many recent cases are also presented to help students discern the latest judicial analyses in this fascinating study of sports law.

Product Description: Americans, brought up playing or watching sports, absorb the notions of fair play not simply as integral themes of sportsmanship on the field, but also as values they try to carry into their everyday lives. In this accessible and fascinating look at law and sports, Roger I...read more

Product Description: Like its predecessor, the updated second edition of Sport Law: A Managerial Approach is organized around management functions rather than legal theory. Its clear and informative style will help readers understand how legal concepts relate to specific managerial functions and will help prepare them to assume a broad range of responsibilities in sport, education, or recreation...read more

Product Description: This book contains the elements of sports law explained in an organized, coherent manner. It simplifies the complex world of sports law and provides a road map to all of its intricacies from contracts, torts, antitrust, liabilities, constitutional implications, labor law, and taxes...read more

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Wong provides a comprehensive review of the various sports law issues facing professional,intercollegiate, Olympic, high school, youth, and adult recreational sports. Major topics include tort liability, contracts/waivers, antitrust law, labor law, constitutional law, gender discrimination, drug testing, intellectual property law, broadcasting laws pertaining to sports agents, business and employment law, internet gambling, and athletes with disabilities.Discussions of legal concepts are supplemented with summaries and excerpts from hundreds of actual sports cases. Wong cites a variety of books, law review articles, newspaper articles, and Web links for those requiring further information on particular topics. This text-professional guide serves as an invaluable resource to those involved, or studying to become involved, in the vast industry of sports, including attorneys and agents, high school and college athletic administrators, coaches, athletes, labor negotiators, front-office employees, mponsors, marketers, referees and officials, facility managers, event managers, product manufacturers, and others.