Wednesday, March 13, 2019
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
Graduate Club
155 Elm Street,
New Haven,
Connecticut,
United States
18 people have
already registered for this event.
- David Norman-Schiff
- Jordan Sala
- John Louizos
- Lewis Kurlantzick
- Kristyn Hansen
- Eugene Marconi
- Benjamin Diessel
- Daniel Cooper
- Michael Stival
- Robert Langer
- Peter Barile
- Michael Freeman
- John Driscoll
- Timothy Cowan
- Danielle Edwards
- Robert Langer
- Clifford Merin
- Alex Mazzella
Topic
Major League Baseball has a statutory exemption from antitrust law. This lecture will examine the exemption in light of the overwhelming control asserted by MLB over minor league baseball, and how that control impacts minor league baseball in Connecticut.
Speakers
Professor Lewis Kurlantzick, University of Connecticut School of Law
Michael Stival, Excel Sports Management
Michael Stival began his career at the Major League Baseball Players Association in 2007. At the MLBPA, Michael served in a variety of roles and concluded his tenure as Assistant General Counsel. In 2014, Michael moved to Excel Sports Management, where he continues to work on behalf of professional baseball players and other professional athletes. Michael graduated from Harvard College in 2007 and Rutgers Law School - Newark in 2011.
Program Description
This section meeting will include a one-hour plus lecture by the eminent sports law scholar Lewis Kurlantzick (an internationally renowned expert on the law governing antitrust exemptions in sports) and Michael Stival, an agent at Excel Sports Management (and former Assistant General Counsel at the Major League Baseball Players Association) charged with representing minor league baseball players. The program will introduce attendees to the mechanics of the antitrust exemption for MLB baseball, explain how it applies to the minor league system, and will then examine how the monopoly control exercised by the MLB manifests itself in the minor league system, where issues as to unequal bargaining power between players and management, union representation, and pay have all been recent issues of law in the field.
CLE Credit
CT CLE Credit: 1.0 | NY: 0.0 CLE Credits