National Sports Law Institute 33rd Annual Fall Conference

1. Conference Participants
2. Conference Registration
3. Conference Location, Parking & Schedule
4. Conference Hotel
5. Continuing Legal Education for Attorneys
6. Conference Sponsors

On Friday, October 14, 2022, the National Sports Law Institute of Marquette University Law School will host its 33rd annual conference within Eckstein Hall, the home of the law school.  The conference will focus on a wide range of topics connected to the 50th anniversary of Title IX, including transgender participation, starting a women's sports program, the status of esports and motorsports under Title IX, college coaching issues, substantial proportionality and cutting opportunities, addressing allegations of sexual abuse, and current issues in international sports including the Court of Arbitration for Sport's review of female skater eligibility at the Beijing Olympics.  The conference will end with a celebration of 50 years of sports law in honor of National Sports Law Institute founder Prof. Martin Greenberg who is in the midst of his 50th year of teaching this fall.

Conference Registration

There are two options for registration for 

1. Marquette University students, faculty and staff, alums, members of the National Sports Law Institute's Board of Advisors, members from the sponsoring organizations for this conference and Sports Law Program sponsors, and individuals from organizations that support Sports Law Certificate Program internships, can attend at no cost.  Individuals in this category may register by clicking the link from this sentence (option 1).
2. All other individuals can attend for the low cost of $99.  Individuals in this category may register by clicking the link from this sentence (option 2).

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.  (View a virtual tour here).

PARKING: Parking for all non-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.

• 8 am
  • Conference attendee check in begins at 8 am in the Eckstein Hall Lobby.  
  • CLE and student check in begins in the Zilber Forum.
  • Continental breakfast available in the Zilber Forum.
  • All attendees must be pre-registered by Tuesday, October 11th, 2022.
• 9 - 11:45 am
  • Morning panels
  • 11:30 am = Conference and attorney Continuing Legal Education attendee check in ends.
• 11:45 am - 1 pm
  • Conference lunch in the Zilber Forum
• 1 - 5:10 pm 
  • Afternoon panels
  • 4:30 pm = Attorney Continuing Legal Education Certification available
• 5:10 - 5;30 pm
  • Tribute to 50 years of teaching: Professor Martin Greenberg
• 5:30 - 7 pm
  • Conference reception in Zilber Forum

Conference Hotel

The National Sports Law Institute has acquired a room block at the Courtyard Marriott Downtown blocks from the Law School for $134.00 a night until October 1st.  Make your reservation at this rate by visiting the hotel by clicking here.

Conference Participants:

• Professor Paul M. Anderson (L’95), Director, Sports Law Program and National Sports Law Institute, Marquette University Law School
• Attorney Carla Varriale-Barker, Shareholder and Chair, Sports, Recreation and Entertainment Practice Group, Segal McCambridge, and Sports Law Professor, Columbia University School of Professional Studies Sports Management Program, New York, NY
• Professor Jacquelyn Bridgeman, Director, School of Culture, Gender & Social Justice; Kepler Professor of Law, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
• Professor Kerri Cebula, Associate Professor of Sports Management, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, PA
• Attorney John P. Collins, Partner, Collins & Collins, member, U.S. Soccer Board of Directors; Senior Advisor, United Soccer League, and member, NSLI, Board of Advisors, Chicago, IL
• Janis K. Doleschal, Sports Law Consultant, Start Playing Safe, Former Commissioner of Sports and Athletics, Milwaukee Public Schools, and member, NSLI Board of Advisors, Lannon, WI
• Professor Helen “Nellie” Drew, Professor of Practice in Sports Law; Director of the UB Center for the Advancement of Sport, University of Buffalo School of Law, Buffalo, NY
• Professor Martin J. Greenberg (L’71), Managing Member, Law Office of Martin J. Greenberg, LLC, and Adjunct Professor of Law, Founder, National Sports Law Institute, and member, NSLI Board of Advisors, Milwaukee, WI
• Attorney Wyatt Honse, Law Clerk for Chief Judge James D. Peterson of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin.
• Attorney Michael Lenard, OLY, Vice President, International Council of Arbitration for Sport, Lausanne, Switzerland; former Vice President, United States Olympic Committee; former member of the Board, Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, former Vice Chair and member of the USOC's Athletes’ Advisory Council; 1984 Olympian, and member, NSLI, Board of Advisors
• Professor Matthew J. Mitten, Professor of Law and Executive Director, National Sports Law Institute, Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee, WI
• Sam Moore, PhD Student - Human Movement Science Curriculum, Applied Physiology Laboratory, Department of Allied Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC
• Professor Anita Moorman, Department of Health and Sport Sciences, College of Education and Human Development, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
• Professor Barb Osborne, joint appointment in Exercise and Sport Science and the School of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
• Attorney Jill Pilgrim, Pilgrim & Associates Arbitration, Law & Mediation LLC, Managing Attorney and Lecturer in Law, Columbia University Law School, and member, NSLI, Board of Advisors, New York, NY
• Attorney John Ruger, OLY, Consultant and Mediator, Court of Arbitration for Sport, and member, NSLI, Board of Advisors, Boulder, CO

CLE CREDIT:

The National Sports Law Institute of Marquette University Law School will seek approval for has applied for up to 7.5 Wisconsin CLE credits for this event.  The Institute cannot guarantee the receipt of any CLE credit for any attorney for this event. Any decision 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.  Instead, the Institute will provide information to attorneys seeking CLE credit from other states after the conference.  Attendees interested in receiving CLE credit must remain for the entire event.  Certificates of attendance will not be provided to any attendee until after 4:30 pm on October 14th.

SPONSORS:

Conference sponsors include Foley & Lardner, LLP,  the Sports & Entertainment Law Section of the State Bar of Wisconsin, and the Law Offices of Martin J. Greenberg.