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Student-Athlete Contract Rights In The Aftermath Of "Bloom V. Ncaa", Joel Eckert

Vanderbilt Law Review

Jeremy Bloom is the defending World Champion in moguls skiing, representing the United States in this discipline at both the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics. Bloom also played football for the University of Colorado from 2002 to 2003 where he established two Colorado football records. Before enrolling at Colorado in 2002, Bloom had endorsed numerous products and desired to continue doing so throughout his time in college so that he could fund his skiing career.

The National Collegiate Athletics Association ("NCAA") allows student-athletes ("athletes" or "student-athletes") to compete professionally and receive salaries in sports other than those for which they …

Is The Cisg Benefiting Anybody?, Gilles Cuniberti

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The Convention on Contracts for International Sale of Goods (CISG) was supposed to increase legal certainty and reduce the transaction costs of international buyers and sellers. This Article argues that none of these goals has been met. A survey of 181 court decisions and arbitral awards applying the CISG shows that the vast majority of international buyers and sellers do not address the issue of the law governing their contracts, irrespective of the value at stake. Although the data is not easy to interpret, it follows that international buyers and sellers are simply not concerned with the legal regime governing …

An Empirical Analysis Of Ceo Employment Contracts: What Do Top Executives Bargain For?, Randall Thomas, Stewart J. Schwab

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

In this paper, we examine the key legal characteristics of 375 employment contracts between some of the largest 1500 public corporations and their Chief Executive Officers. We look at the actual language of these contracts, asking whether and in what ways CEO contracts differ from what are thought of as standard employment contract features for other workers. Our data provide some empirical answers to several common assertions or speculations about CEO contracts, and shed light on whether these contracts are negotiated solely to suit the preferences of CEOs or have provisions that insure that the employers' interests are also safeguarded. …