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Sports Justice: The Law & the Business of Sports
Author(s): Roger I. Abrams (Author)
- Publisher: Northeastern University Press
- Publication Date: 11 Nov. 2010
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 228 pages
- ISBN-10: 1555537006
- ISBN-13: 9781555537005
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
“In Sports Justice, Roger Abrams offers a compelling and dynamic analysis of major sports law controversies over the last century. Abrams reveals how these controversies underscore broader conceptions of justice and how those conceptions, like sports, evolve over time. Through an interdisciplinary approach, Sports Justice offers readers invaluable insight into the relationship between sports disputes and fundamental notions of fairness. Sports, as Abrams convincingly details, reflect as much about social attitudes as they do about the games that are played.”–Michael McCann, professor, Vermont Law School; legal analyst and SI.com columnist, Sports Illustrated
“Both students and practitioners in the legal and business areas of sports can enjoy and learn from Sports Justice. Deeply grounded in law and relevant to the business of sports, it combines insights and information about issues across the realm of sports–from gender equality in sports competition to franchise relocation to player free agency–that will interest those who manage, participate in, and follow sports.”–Professor Stephen A. Greyser, Harvard Business School, creator of Harvard’s Business of Sports course
“Using case studies, Abrams (Law, Northeastern Univ.) examines legal issues affecting sports. Among the issues examined are judicial abstention in civil and criminal matters arising from on-field activities, the rights of disabled athletes, gender discrimination, efforts by sports organizations to insulate themselves from judicial intervention, sports arbitration, and antitrust. . . . Abrams has produced a book that will be of interest to legal scholars and sports fans. Recommended.”–Choice
“Prof. Abrams wrote the book for sports fans who also read something other than the sports section of their newspapers. The book covers matters involving amateur athletics and pro sports – – including several previous matters involving the NFL.”–The Sports Curmudgeon
About the Author
ROGER I. ABRAMS is Richardson Professor of Law at Northeastern University. A recognized leader in the field of sports law, he is the author of Legal Bases: Baseball and the Law and The First World Series and the
Baseball Fanatics of 1903, among others.
