{"id":6981,"date":"2009-09-07T17:20:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=6981"},"modified":"2009-09-07T17:20:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T22:20:10","slug":"learning-about-law-by-watching-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2009\/09\/learning-about-law-by-watching-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning About Law . . . by Watching Football?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"instantWho knew you could learn so much about jurisprudence from the NFL rulebook?\u00a0 In a new paper<\/a>\u00a0on SSRN, Chad Oldfather <\/a>(Vikings fan)\u00a0and 3L Matthew Fernholz (Bears fan)\u00a0demonstrate that it is surprisingly illuminating to compare and contrast the rules of instant replay with the rules of appellate review.\u00a0 Their title says it all: “Comparative Procedure on a Sunday Afternoon: Instant Replay in the NFL as a Process of Appellate Review.”\u00a0 Here is the abstract:<\/p>\n

During his confirmation hearings, Chief Justice John Roberts famously likened the judicial role to that of a baseball umpire. The increased prevalence of video evidence makes it likely that judges will find another sporting analogue for their role \u2013 that of the instant replay official in the NFL. (Indeed, many have already done so.) This Essay explores the analogy. In so doing it seeks not only to consider its appropriateness in a narrow sense (much as many commentators considered the appropriateness of the Chief Justice\u2019s analogy), but also to conduct something of a comparative analysis and thereby to use it as a vehicle for illustrating some general characteristics of a process of decisional review.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a fun and — only six days until the Packers’ season opener! — timely article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who knew you could learn so much about jurisprudence from the NFL rulebook?\u00a0 In a new paper\u00a0on SSRN, Chad Oldfather (Vikings fan)\u00a0and 3L Matthew Fernholz (Bears fan)\u00a0demonstrate that it is surprisingly illuminating to compare and contrast the rules of instant replay with the rules of appellate review.\u00a0 Their title says it all: “Comparative Procedure on 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