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Caster Semenya And The Policing Of Competitive Athletic Advantage, Taylor Vann
Caster Semenya And The Policing Of Competitive Athletic Advantage, Taylor Vann
Connecticut Law Review
In recent years, transgender and intersex athletes competing in track and field have come under intense scrutiny. The most notable of these athletes at the elite level is Caster Semenya of South Africa. Semenya has been accused of benefiting from an unfair competitive advantage due to her natural biological makeup. In response, international track and field’s governing body has promulgated multiple regulations to address athletes like Semenya. This article examines these regulations and their impact on transgender and intersex athletes at multiple levels of competition, It argues that these regulations and similar attempts under Title IX in the United States …
League Of Ownership Of Teams, Conflicts Of Interest, And Personnel Exchanges, Lewis Kurlantzick
League Of Ownership Of Teams, Conflicts Of Interest, And Personnel Exchanges, Lewis Kurlantzick
Faculty Articles and Papers
No abstract provided.
Understanding And Regulating The Sport Of Mixed Martial Arts, Brendan Maher
Understanding And Regulating The Sport Of Mixed Martial Arts, Brendan Maher
Faculty Articles and Papers
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 …
The Evolution Of Copyright Law In The Arts, Kevin Liftig
The Evolution Of Copyright Law In The Arts, Kevin Liftig
Honors Scholar Theses
As digital storage of intellectual goods such as literature and music has become widespread, the duplication and unlicensed distribution of these goods has become a frequent source of legal contention. When technology for production and replication of intellectual goods advanced, there were disputes concerning the rights to produce and duplicate these works. As new technologies have made copies of intellectual goods more accessible, legal institutions have largely moved to protect the rights of ownership of ideas through copyright laws. This paper will examine key changes in the technology that affect intellectual property, and the responses that legal institutions have made …
Is There A Steroids Problem - The Problematic Character Of The Case For Regulation, Lewis Kurlantzick
Is There A Steroids Problem - The Problematic Character Of The Case For Regulation, Lewis Kurlantzick
Faculty Articles and Papers
No abstract provided.
Knicks-Heat And The Appropriateness Of Sanctions In Sport, Lewis Kurlantzick
Knicks-Heat And The Appropriateness Of Sanctions In Sport, Lewis Kurlantzick
Faculty Articles and Papers
No abstract provided.
Fusion Folk: A Comment On Law And Music, Carol Weisbrod
Fusion Folk: A Comment On Law And Music, Carol Weisbrod
Faculty Articles and Papers
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
A Needed Change In The Rules Of Baseball, Lewis Kurlantzick
Faculty Articles and Papers
No abstract provided.