In the Arena: Cutting Edge Issues in International Sports Law

**This video will be loaded on the schedule on September 9th. Please watch the on demand video under this listing. An email will be sent once this becomes available.**

Simulating a track and field relay, our international experts will cover four of the hottest topics in sports law facing athletes around the world. First, we’ll grab the baton from our February 2022 Midyear Meeting in Scottsdale, which explored student athletes’ historic challenges to rules and laws banning compensation and exploitation of their name, image and likeness. While that panel left off with the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2021 landmark decision in Alston v. NCAA, our first topic will explore how the landscape has undergone a seismic change in the year following Alston. Next, we’ll grab the baton and focus on athletes’ freedom of speech around the world: what rights and limits do athletes have in different countries to protest and comment on issues of the day? Next, we’ll examine hurdles that women seeking to play professional soccer/football have surmounted and still face in various nations. Finally, we’ll sprint across the finish line by exploring one of the most controversial issues in European sports (which is structured very differently than in the United States): should European football “supersize,” similar to the NFL or NBA in the U.S.?