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Decertifying Players' Unions: Lessons From The Nfl And Nba Lockouts Of 2011, Nathaniel Grow
Decertifying Players' Unions: Lessons From The Nfl And Nba Lockouts Of 2011, Nathaniel Grow
Nathaniel Grow
This article analyzes the National Football League (“NFL”) and National Basketball Association (“NBA”) lockouts of 2011, focusing in particular on the role union dissolution played in each work stoppage. Although the existing academic literature had generally concluded that players’ unions in the four major U.S. professional sports leagues were unlikely to disband during a labor dispute, the unions in both the NFL and NBA elected to dissolve in response to lockouts by ownership. This article provides an explanation for why the prior literature misjudged the role that union dissolution would play during the 2011 work stoppages, arguing that previous commentators …
Antitrust & The Bowl Championship Series, Nathaniel Grow
Antitrust & The Bowl Championship Series, Nathaniel Grow
Nathaniel Grow
This Article analyzes the potential antitrust liability of the Bowl Championship Series (“BCS”), college football’s current system for selecting the participants of both the national championship game as well as the other most desirable post-season bowl games. The BCS has recently been the subject of increasing attack from both politicians and law enforcement officials, who allege that the system constitutes an illegal restraint of trade due to its preferential treatment of universities from certain traditionally stronger conferences, at the expense of teams from other, historically less competitive conferences. Meanwhile, the academic literature considering the antitrust status of the BCS is …