March 6, 2017

27: NFL Player Health with Chris Deubert

In this episode, Peter speaks with Chris Deubert, a Senior Law and Ethics Associate for the Law and Ethics initiative of the Football Players Health Study at Harvard University. Chris has wide ranging sports law experience and combined his experience with that of his co-authors I. Glenn Cohen and Holly Fernandez Lynch in order to produce a report suggesting recommendations to improve the health of football players. The study is wide-ranging and our discussion serves as an introduction to it. You can read the study online here or purchase a print copy at cost here.

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April 18, 2016

19: MLB Fan-Safety Lawsuit with Nathaniel Grow

In this episode, Peter Ott discusses the recent fan safety class action lawsuit brought against MLB with Nathaniel Grow, Associate Professor of Legal Studies at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. Nathaniel is also the author of the book Baseball on Trial: The Origin of Baseball’s Antitrust Exemption, a number of sports-related law review articles, and some sports-law posts on the website Fangraphs. His most recent Fangraphs post, which we discuss in this podcast episode, is entitled MLB Scores Important Victory in Fan-Safety Lawsuit. He is one of the top baseball legal analysts on the internet. You can follow him on twitter at @NathanielGrow.

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