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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 …
Detecting The Stealth Erosion Of Precedent: Affirmative Action After Ricci, Sachin S. Pandya
Detecting The Stealth Erosion Of Precedent: Affirmative Action After Ricci, Sachin S. Pandya
Faculty Articles and Papers
This paper presents a method for detecting stealth precedent erosion, i.e., when an appellate court majority deliberately writes the opinion in case y to reduce the scope of its precedent x, but does not expressly refer to precedent x in the opinion. Applying this method, the paper provides a strong basis for concluding that in Ricci v. DeStefano (2009), a United States Supreme Court case decided under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Court majority eroded by stealth United Steelworkers of America v. Weber (1979), and Johnson v. Transportation Agency (1987), both cases that read Title …