AI Companion Legislation in the United States:What It Means for the Video Game Industry By: Stuart Irvin, Monique N. Bhargava, and Kalid Qur’an Knox[1] Across the United States, state legislatures are moving aggressively to regulate AI-powered chatbots and conversational companions, particularly those that interact with minors in a manner that provides human-like social interactions. Driven […]
Written by Jamie Fowler, Joseph Lubin, and Bartosz Osowski
The legal pathways to sport professionalism differ widely in the U.S. and in the U.K. Contrasting the NCAA’s amateurism-based model with England’s academy system, this article considers how each framework reflects different priorities in education, market control, and player welfare.
Written by Kitty Luo
A recent class action against the gambling site Stake and its celebrity promoters Drake and Adin Ross reflects a broader shift in celebrity liability for endorsing financial products and platforms in the digital age.
Written by Alex Talel
Inconsistent rulings in doping cases of top tennis players such as Simona Halep reveal serious due process flaws and the need for stronger procedural protections to ensure fair and consistent treatment for professional athletes.
Interview by Priya Setty
Melina Iavarone is a current 2L at Boston College Law School. Her recent article examines how broadly drafted morals clauses in sports and entertainment contracts enable subjective and selectively applied enforcement. She reflects in an interview on her research process and the growing role of social media in shaping modern morals clause disputes.
Interview by Kitty Luo and Priya Setty
Oliver Canning is a current 3L and L.L.M. candidate at the University of Miami School of Law. He discusses in an interview his recent article examining the evolving legal and regulatory landscape of collegiate sports betting. Canning reflects on his research process, key findings, and what he hopes readers take away from the work.
Written by Ahan Dhar
In recent years, family influencing has become one of the most fascinating, profitable, and perhaps ethically dubious realms of social media content creation, posing new questions in child labor laws.
Written by Rachel Barkin
The release of Sora 2 and the Sora app raises new questions about copyright protection and fair use in the age of artificial intelligence.
Written by Lauryn Wang
The WNBA faces potential antitrust violations for interference with the sale of the Connecticut Sun.
Written by Priya Setty
Netflix’s dramatization of the Menendez brothers case raises serious questions about how the law fails to protect public figures from damaging misrepresentations in true crime media.
Written by Stuart Irvin, Xing Cheng (邢成), Philip Chang (장필립), Grace D. Wiley[1] Download the article here: What Happened to the Olympic Esports Games? If IP is the Problem, We Can Fix It. At the 142nd Session of the International Olympic Committee (“IOC”) held in Paris in July 2024, the members voted unanimously to create
