Sports Law in 2022 – Key issues to watch in North America

Here are the top sports law issues to watch out for in 2022 in North America from the LawInSport Editorial Board. 

Contributors:

• Jodi S Balsam, Associate Professor Of Clinical Law/Director Of Externship Programs, Brooklyn Law School
  • Changing Sports Media Landscape
  • Sports and Human Rights
• Jeremi Duru, Professor Of Law, Washington College Of Law American University
  • Uniformity to name, image, and likeness rules governing collegiate athletes
• Mark Conrad, Director of the Sports Business Concentration & Associate Professor of Law and Ethics, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University (New York)
  • Whether there will be more Covid-19 restrictions on sports events
  • Controversy over Beijing hosting the upcoming Winter Olympics
  • Labor negotiations between Major League Baseball and its Players’ Association
• Glenn Wong, Executive Director, Sports Law & Business, Arizona State University (With the Assistance of Cameron C. Miller, Lawyer, Washington D.C.)
  • NCAA’s members to hold constitutional convention
  • MLB’s labor dispute
• Aaron Swerdlow, Partner, Weinberg Gonser LLP
  • Major League Baseball Labor Dispute and Minor League Players’ Rights
• Kate Porter, Partner, Vela Wood
  • Major League Baseball’s lockout
• Maureen Weston - Professor Of Law, Pepperdine Caruso School Of Law
  • The lingering questions following the Alston ruling
• Joshua Gordon, Founder, Sports Conflict Institute (SCI)/University Of Oregon
  • Negotiating new playing fields
• Christopher Chase, Partner, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz
  • Continued expansion of amateur student-athlete NIL deals
• Ricky Volante, CEO & Co-Founder, The Professional Collegiate League
  • Renewed attempts to pass a national NIL standard
• James Bunting, Partner (With the Assistance of Carlos Sayao, Partner, Tyr LLP)
  • Legislation and Lawsuits on Participation of Transgender Women in Women’s Sports
• Daniel Greene, Attorney, Newman & Lickstein
  • NIL and High School Athletics

We would like to thank each member of our Editorial 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.