National Sports Law Institute 35th Anniversary Annual Conference

The conference is now full and registration is closed. There is no remote option to attend the conference.

As part of the celebration of the 35th anniversary of its creation the National Sports Law Institute of Marquette University Law School and its 35th Anniversary CLE Series, the Institute's annual fall conference, "Perspectives on 35 Years of Sports Law" will take place on Friday, October 18, 2024.  With the support of Official  CLE Series Sponsor Foley & Lardner LLP and its Sports & Entertainment Group, and additional sponsors the Law Office of Martin J. Greenberg LLC, and the Sports & Entertainment Law Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin, the program will feature presentations from sports law professors and scholars providing perspectives on the development of sports law and its impact on antitrust law, labor law, Olympic sports and arbitration, gambling, esports, disability and mental health, constitutional rights, gender equity, and race and representation.  The conference will also feature a Keynote from Major League Baseball Commissioner Emeritus Bud Selig, Distinguished Lecturer in Sports Law and Policy, focusing on developments in baseball over the past 3 decades with a look to the future, and a discussion of the value of the National Sports Law Institute at Marquette University Law School that he was instrumental in creating back in the late 1980s. The program will run from 9 am until @5:30 pm, in the Lubar Center on the first floor of Eckstein Hall, the home of Marquette University Law School.

The National Sports Law Institute will also apply for between 6 and 7 Wisconsin CLE credits from the Wisconsin Board of Bar Examiners for this program. See below for further information on conference participants, the recommended conference hotel, further information on CLE credit, and a special gift for all attendees.

Conference Participants:

• Professor Paul Anderson (L’95), Director, Sports Law Program and National Sports Law Institute, Marquette University Law School, and Chair and Founder, Sports Law Alumni Association
• Professor Lauren McCoy Coffey (L'09), Director of Graduate Academic Services, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC; member, Sports Law Alumni Association
• Professor Martin J. Greenberg (L'68), founder, National Sports Law Institute, retired Adjunct Professor, Marquette University Law School; Managing Member, Law Office of Martin J. Greenberg, LLC, Milwaukee, WI; and member NSLI Board of Advisors
• Aaron Hernandez (L’13), Assistant Dean and Executive Director of the Allan Bud Selig Sports Law and Business Program, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ; and member, Sports Law Alumni Association and NSLI Board of Advisors
• Professor Richard McLaren, O.C. {Officer of the Order of Canada}; Professor of Law, Western University, London, Canada; Counsel to McKenzie Lake Lawyers LLP; Barrister & Solicitor Law Society of Ontario; and Member Court of Arbitration for Sport, Lausanne, Switzerland; and member, NSLI Board of Advisors
• Professor Matthew Mitten, Professor of Law, and Executive Director, National Sports Law Institute, Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee, WI
• Professor Elana Olson, Director, Eckstein Law Library & Labor & Employment Law Program, and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee, WI; and member, NSLI Board of Advisors
• Professor Barbara Osborne, joint appointment in Exercise and Sport Science and the School of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
• Professor Roger Quiles, Founding Partner, Quiles Law, New York, NY; Adjunct Professor of Law, Marquette University Law School; and member, NSLI Board of Advisors
• Professor Maureen Arellano Weston, Professor of Law & Director of the Entertainment Media Sports Law Program, Pepperdine University, School of Law, Malibu, CA; and member, NSLI Board of Advisors
• Professor John Wolohan, Professor of Sports Law, David B. Falk College of Sport, and Professor of Law, College of Law (by courtesy appointment) Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Conference location, parking & tentative schedule

• LOCATION: The conference will take place in the Lubar Center on the first floor of Eckstein Hall, 1215 W. Michigan Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53201.  (Take virtual tour here).
• PARKING: All attendees, except for Marquette University Law School students, can park in the law school's 11th street lot (P2), underneath the Law School, and entering from 11th street at no charge.

Conference Hotel Recommendation

The National Sports Law Institute recommends that guests consider staying at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Milwaukee Downtown, blocks from the Law School for their conference visit.

Continuing Legal Education Credit for Lawyers

The National Sports Law Institute of Marquette University Law School will seek approval for 6-7 Wisconsin CLE credits for this event.  The Institute cannot guarantee the receipt of any CLE credit for any attorney for this event as decisions on awarding credit comes only from the Wisconsin Board of Bar Examiners or the applicable CLE approval body in the state the individual attorney is seeking credit from.  Attendees seeking CLE credit from other states can receive additional information from the Institute that may assist with such applications, but the Institute will not complete out of state applications for any individual attorney.  Attendees interested in receiving CLE credit must remain for the entire event.

Official  CLE Series Sponsor

Other program sponsors

Gift for Attendees

At the conclusion of the conference, and in recognition of the 35th anniversary of the National Sports Law Institute, all attendees will receive a 35th anniversary bobblehead, created in conjunction with Institute intern sponsor the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum.