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Changes Are Not Enough: Problems Persist With Ncaa's Adjudicative Policy, Elizabeth Lombard
Changes Are Not Enough: Problems Persist With Ncaa's Adjudicative Policy, Elizabeth Lombard
Notre Dame Law Review
Recently, the critical eye of the public has focused on the adjudicative and enforcement policy of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Social media sites serve as a testament to the rampant shock and confusion that the general population has harbored with regard to the enforcement and adjudication process on the heels of recent, high-profile cases. Witnessing verified sports reporters and outlets refer to the NCAA as powerless or questioning its purpose or existence altogether is evidence of the NCAA’s trying times in the court of public opinion. On the one hand, and rightfully so, one might think that this …
Lane Violation: Why The Ncaa's Amateurism Rules Have Overstepped Antitrust Protection & How To Correct, Alexander Knuth
Lane Violation: Why The Ncaa's Amateurism Rules Have Overstepped Antitrust Protection & How To Correct, Alexander Knuth
Notre Dame Law Review Reflection
The NCAA is in the midst of an era that will define the future of collegiate athletics and determine how young people participate in sports for the foreseeable future. This Essay ultimately concludes that both the NCAA and its athletes would benefit from a system that allows for the exploitation of athletes' name, image, or likeness (NIL) rights while preserving the core educational and nonprofessional nature of college sports as a product. Currently the NCAA requires its athletes to maintain a very broadly defined amateur status to remain eligible for competition. The current amateurism definition states that athletes must forego …
The Ncaa's Transfer Conundrum, Christopher J. Gerace
The Ncaa's Transfer Conundrum, Christopher J. Gerace
Notre Dame Law Review
This Note articulates a normative framework for analyzing NCAA transfer rules, arguing that a balance must be struck between fairness for student-athletes and appropriate restrictions on transfer rules so as to prevent full-on free agency in collegiate athletics. The Note additionally argues that institutional autonomy over academics is a factor the NCAA must consider along with fairness and prevention of free agency. This Note will not wade into the complicated waters of potential antitrust issues with the NCAA, nor discuss the controversial calls for pay-for-play or unionization for student-athletes—instead, this Note will simply take for granted that it is desirable …
The Case Of The Shropshire Piano Treasure, Geoffrey Bennett
The Case Of The Shropshire Piano Treasure, Geoffrey Bennett
Journal Articles
In the more than twenty years since the Treasure Act 1996 (UK) c 24 came into force, there have been many dramatic discoveries of treasure.' The media frequently reports the results of remarkable finds usually made by metal detectorists in fields and open spaces. A unique, not to say bizarre, example, however, is the discovery of a cache of gold coins found concealed in a piano in Shropshire in 2016.2 It makes the point that the old law of treasure trove still has a twilight existence in circumstances that are prone to recur.