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Panel 2: The Nlrb, Unions, Courts, And Democracy, Elizabeth L. Macdowell, Matthew Dimick, Charlotte Garden, Ryan Mcginley Stempel, Ann C. Mcginley, Brishen Rogers Nov 2017

Panel 2: The Nlrb, Unions, Courts, And Democracy, Elizabeth L. Macdowell, Matthew Dimick, Charlotte Garden, Ryan Mcginley Stempel, Ann C. Mcginley, Brishen Rogers

Matthew Dimick

Moderator: Elizabeth MacDowell Matthew Dimick: Unions, Employers and Social Policy Preferences Charlotte Garden: Union Made: Labor's Litigation for Broad Social Change Ryan McGinley Stempel & Ann McGinley: Facebook and Concerted Activity: A Renewal of Democracy at Work? Brishen Rogers: Passion and Reason in Labor Law


The Oxford Handbook Of American Sports Law, Edmund P. Edmonds Jan 2017

The Oxford Handbook Of American Sports Law, Edmund P. Edmonds

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Ed Edmonds, Athlete Representation, in The Oxford Handbook of American Sports Law (Michael A. McCann, ed. 2017).

The sports agent performs a critical function as an intermediary between management and athletes by handling contract negotiations, endorsements, financial planning, and other associated activities. This chapter provides a history of athlete representation beginning in the 1920s with the efforts of Christy Walsh and Charles C. Pyle through the increased role of players associations during the final third of last century. In the 1980s, professional associations and state legislatures launched efforts to regulate agent behavior as a reaction to evidence of …