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Coming Soon: The Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

By Rick Karcher, Michael McCann, Geoffrey Rapp, Greg Skidmore, and Howard Wasserman

Congrats are in order for a group of Harvard Law School students for receiving their law school's approval for an official new online law journal: the Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law. The editors of HJSEL are still putting everything together, but a website should soon be up and it is anticipated that HJSEL will publish one issue in its first year, likely next spring.

While HJSEL is not yet formally accepting article submissions, you can contact one of its editors, Ashwin Krishnan, for more information about submissions. There will be also additional information on Sports Law Blog.

It is fitting that Harvard Law School add a sports and entertainment law review, as Professor Paul Weiler is considered by many to be the founder of U.S. sports law and entertainment law. Through the Committee on Sports and Entertainment Law, HLS has also an impressive history hosting terrific sports law symposia and speakers series. The law school has also produced a number of distinguished sports attorneys, including Jeffrey Pash (NFL's Executive VP & General Counsel), Mike Zarren (Boston Celtics Assistant Executive Director of Basketball Operations and Associate Counsel), and Derrick Jackson (Florida Marlins' VP & General Counsel), among many others.

Speaking of Harvard Law grads in sports law, congrats are also in order for Peter Carfagna, a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School (where he teaches sports law) and Partner at Calfee, Halter & Griswold. Peter, who previously served as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel of IMG, helped the students organize their efforts to obtain approval.

Full post as published by Sports Law Blog on August 10, 2009 (boomark / email).