Reversing Field:
Examining Commercialization, Labor and
Race in 21st Century Sports Law
West Virginia University College of Law
October 4-5 2007
Thursday, October 4, 2007 – Commercialization and Race
Welcome
John W. Fisher, II – Dean, West Virginia University College of Law
Liz Seaton – Deputy Director of Programs, American Constitution Society
Game On: Current State of NCAA Athletics
Introduction by Stacey Evans ? President, WVU Sports & Entertainment Law Society
Bernard Franklin – Senior VP for Governance, Membership, Education & Research Services, NCAA
Panel I: Commercialization: The Recruiting and Selling of the College Athlete
Panel Moderated by Charles DiSalvo – Professor of Law, WVU
Gordon Hylton – Professor of Law, Marquette University
Lisa Pike Masteralexis – Department Head and Associate Professor, Department of Sport Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Alfred Mathewson – Professor of Law, University of New Mexico
Keynote Address by Leonard J. Elmore, Senior Counsel, Leboeuf Lamb, Greene and MacRae, LLP and Basketball Analyst for ESPN, ABC and CBS
Panel II: Racing From the Past: Exposing Racism in Today?s Collegiate Athletics
Panel Moderated by Judith Scully – Professor of Law, WVU
Dana Brooks – Dean and Professor, WVU School of Physical Education
Suzan Shown Harjo – President and Executive Director, The Morning Star Institute
Marlon LeBlanc – Head Coach, WVU Men?s Soccer
Michael McCann – Assistant Professor of Law, Mississippi College School of Law; Special Contributor, Si.com
Panel III: Professional Equality: The Rooney Rule
Panel moderated by Todd Clark- Assistant Professor of Law, North Carolina Central University
Jeremi Duru – Assistant Professor of Law, Temple University
Floyd Keith – Executive Director, Black Coaches Association
Cyrus Mehri – Founding Partner, Mehri & Skalet, PLLC; Counsel to the Fritz Pollard Alliance
Kenneth Shropshire, – David W. Hauck Professor, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Dinner: Touchdown Terrace, Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium
Keynote Address by Kenneth Shropshire: ?Being Sugar Ray?
Friday, October 5, 2007 – Labor Issues
Panel IV: Finding Equal Footing: Gender Issues in Sports
Panel moderated by Joyce McConnell – Thomas R. Goodwin Professor of Law, WVU
Deborah Brake – Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Daniel Malasky – Counsel, Professional Tennis, United States Tennis Association
Barbara Osborne – Associate Professor of Sport Administration, University of North Carolina
Panel V: False/Positives: Debating the Merits of Drug Testing
Panel moderated by Anne Marie Lofaso – Associate Professor of Law, WVU
Dr. Julian Bailes – Chair, Department of Neurosurgery, WVU; consultant to the National Football League
David Cornwell – President, DNK Cornwell
Timothy Davis – John W. & Ruth H. Turnage Professor of Law, Wake Forest University; member of the Review Board for the United States Anti-Doping Agency
Keynote Address by William B. Gould IV, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Panel VI: Balls or Strikes: Are Economic Weapons Finding the Zone?
Panel moderated by Jeff Hirsch – Associate Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law
William B. Gould IV – Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Joseph Rosen – Baseball and Media Division, Orpheus LLC
Dan Silverman – Counsel, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP
Dennis Walsh – National Labor Relations Board
Panel VII: Reversing Field: Purposeful Progress
Panel Moderated by Dallas Branch – Associate Professor of Sports Management, WVU
Sherri Burr – Professor of Law, University of New Mexico School of Law
andré douglas pond cummings – Associate Professor of Law, WVU
Anne Marie Lofaso – Associate Professor of Law, WVU
Andre Smith – Assistant Professor of Law, Florida International University
Reception
Featured Speaker:
Sherri Burr – Professor of Law, University of New Mexico School of Law
Sponsors:
Sports and Entertainment Law Society
West Virginia University College of Law
American Constitution Society
West Virginia University Office of the President
West Virginia University School of Physical Education
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