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League Of Ownership Of Teams, Conflicts Of Interest, And Personnel Exchanges, Lewis Kurlantzick Jan 2014

League Of Ownership Of Teams, Conflicts Of Interest, And Personnel Exchanges, Lewis Kurlantzick

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Understanding And Regulating The Sport Of Mixed Martial Arts, Brendan Maher Jan 2010

Understanding And Regulating The Sport Of Mixed Martial Arts, Brendan Maher

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The past fifteen years have seen the emergence of a new sport in America and around the world: mixed martial arts (“MMA”). MMA is an interdisciplinary combat sport whose participants engage in and combine a variety of fighting disciplines (e.g., kickboxing, wrestling, karate, jiu-jitsu, and so on) within one match. In this Article, I examine and analyze the sport’s evolution, articulate a theory of sporting legitimacy, supply a conceptual taxonomy of regulation, and highlight potential reform. More specifically, my foundational treatment proceeds as follows. I first explain the modern history and development of MMA, tracing it from its shaggy, brutish …


Is There A Steroids Problem - The Problematic Character Of The Case For Regulation, Lewis Kurlantzick Jan 2006

Is There A Steroids Problem - The Problematic Character Of The Case For Regulation, Lewis Kurlantzick

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Knicks-Heat And The Appropriateness Of Sanctions In Sport, Lewis Kurlantzick Jan 2002

Knicks-Heat And The Appropriateness Of Sanctions In Sport, Lewis Kurlantzick

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Fusion Folk: A Comment On Law And Music, Carol Weisbrod Jan 1999

Fusion Folk: A Comment On Law And Music, Carol Weisbrod

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This article is, in its most general sense, a critique of the idea of autonomy which is common to the understanding of both law and music. The idea of the autonomy of law, as an enterprise with its own rules and its own conventions, is parallel to a view of the composer working alone, uninfluenced by what has gone before, creating masterpieces free of cultural contexts. The stress here is on the point that both build on previous material, official and unofficial, and that in both there are latitudes and boundaries, ways in which the legal interpreter is free and …


A Needed Change In The Rules Of Baseball, Lewis Kurlantzick Jan 1992

A Needed Change In The Rules Of Baseball, Lewis Kurlantzick

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No abstract provided.