Sports Law In 2024 – Key Issues To Watch In North America

Here are the top sports law issues to watch out for in 2024 in North America from the LawInSport Editorial & Advisory Board.  We hope this proves useful not only in identifying specific cases and issues, but also in detecting broader themes when read in conjunction with the contributions from other jurisdictions.

Contributors:

• Paul Greene, Attorney & Founder, Global Sports Advocates, Portland (assisted by Matthew Kaiser)
  • Relevent Sports v. USSF & FIFA (challenge to the rule against overseas league matches)
  • Ongoing NCAA litigation
• Mark Conrad, Director of the Sports Business Concentration & Professor of Law and Ethics, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University, New York
  • More College Sports Litigation – the lawsuits continue
• Joshua Gordon, Founder, Sports Conflict Institute, University Of Oregon
  • Restructuring of NCAA governance model
  • Evolution of athlete-centric dispute resolution processes
• Jodi S Balsam, Professor Of Clinical Law, Brooklyn Law School
  • Future of the NCAA?
  • Sports league private arbitration under attack
  • Gulf States’ investment in sports
  • Transgender participation in sports
• Jeremi Duru, Professor Of Law, Washington College Of Law American University
  • Jim Trotter’s racial discrimination claim against the NFL
• Thomas A. Baker, Professor, University of Georgia
  • Transgender athletes in sport
• Kate Porter, Partner, Head of Sports Practice, Vela Wood, Dallas
  • USL Super League:  A competing Division 1 Women’s Professional Soccer League
• Daniel Greene, Attorney, Newman & Lickstein, New York
  • Will ancillary NIL issues involving federal law be addressed and solved?
• Maureen Weston - Professor Of Law, Pepperdine Caruso School Of Law, Malibu
  • Will “student-athletes” be adjudged as “employees” under federal law?
• Nan Sato, Partner & Co-Chair, International Practice Group, Fisher & Phillips LLP, Philadelphia (assisted by Jack O'Connor, Associate)
  • Changes to NCAA name, image and likeness policies
• Lindsay Brandon, Director of Safeguarding, Women’s Tennis Association
• Christopher Chase, Partner, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, New York
  • Involvement of U.S. federal government in sport
  • Antitrust cases
  • Relations with China
  • Counterfeiting and piracy

We would like to thank each member of our Editorial and Advisory Board for taking the time out of their busy schedules to share their views with us, and also more broadly for their significant input into LawInSport over the course of the year. Thank you.