Interview with Kathleen Sarnelli Kapukchyan, Staff Writer on Mickey Mouse Funhouse
Kathleen Sarnelli Kapukchyan is a mixed Latina girl who grew up in Glendale, California. She went to the local public school where she met her Armenian husband, Manvel Kapukchyan. Kathleen and Manvel both graduated from UCLA and, a few years later, they married and...
read moreHarvard’s Committee on Sports & Entertainment Law Hosts 2024 Sports Law Symposium
Harvard Law School’s Committee on Sports & Entertainment Law (CSEL) hosted its 2024 Harvard Sports Law Symposium over the last two weeks. Read our coverage of the symposium’s notable events and speakers from JSEL’s Hugh Reynolds and Alec Winshel. On...
read moreInterview with Jessica Maher, Executive Director at SAG-AFTRA’s New England Local Chapter
Jessica Maher is the Executive Director of SAG-AFTRA’s New England Local chapter, which represents members in Eastern Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Ms. Maher began her career at SAG-AFTRA as a Contracts Administrator and...
read moreInterview with Sarah Luppen Fowler, Senior Deputy General Counsel at SAG-AFTRA
Sarah Luppen Fowler is Senior Deputy General Counsel at SAG-AFTRA, the nationwide labor union representing approximately 160,000 members of the film, television, news, music, and radio industries. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School and...
read moreDartmouth Men’s Basketball Team Makes History as First College Team to Vote to Unionize
By Nefertari Elshiekh On March 5th, Dartmouth’s men’s basketball team voted 13-2 to become the first college sports team to unionize–a historic step toward recognizing college athletes as employees. However, their legal battle is far from over. National Relations...
read moreInterview with Alan Rothenberg, Former President of U.S. Soccer
Mr. Rothenberg is Los Angeles Chairman of 1st Century Bank, a division of MidFirst Bank and Chairman of Premier Partnerships. Rothenberg spearheaded soccer’s rise in the U.S. during the 1990s as Chairman and CEO of the 1994 World Cup; Chairman of the 1999 FIFA Women’s...
read moreWhat’s Copyright Got to Do, Got to Do With It?
By Shayna Toh The “cockroach of Broadway” seems to keep cashing checks. Despite the sneering term that veteran theatre critic Jesse Green used to describe jukebox musicals, the genre has dominated Broadway in recent years. In an industry that always seems to battle...
read moreSupreme Court Considers Whether President Trump’s Name May Be Trademarked to Ridicule Him
By Alec Winshel In November 2023, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Vidal v. Elster. Their coming opinion will be the high court’s latest pronouncement on the relationship between trademark law and the First Amendment’s free speech protections. In my view,...
read moreEnabling the Non-Elite: Imagining International Football Tournaments for Mid- and Bottom-Table Teams
By Martin Skladany, Law Professor, Penn State University, Dickinson Law The inequality between the gilded elite football clubs and all other teams is widening. One way to address this concern is to create more European football tournaments for the clubs most people...
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