What: Symposium – Baseball And The Law: America’s National Pastimes
When: Monday, April 11, 2011 (10:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m)
Where: Albany Law School
Agenda
- 10:00 a.m. (outside room 200) – Continental Breakfast
- 10:30 a.m. (Room 200) – “A Contrarian View of Steroids: What’s Wrong With Being All You Can Be?”
- Professor Paul Finkelman, President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy, Albany Law School
- 11:00 a.m. (Room 200) – “From The Dominican Republic To The United States: An Alumnus’s Perspective On Being An International Sports Agent”
- Eric Bowman ’90, Founder and Senior Partner, Bowman Law Firm
- 1:00 p.m. (Room 200) – 2011 Edward C. Sobota ’79 Memorial Lecture – “It’s A Wise Child That Knows Its Father: A Search For Baseball’s Origin”
- John Thorn, Official Baseball Historian, Major League Baseball, and Author,Baseball in the Garden of Eden
- 2:00 p.m. (Room 200) – “From Flood To Free Agency”
- Henry D. Fetter, Attorney and Author of Taking on the Yankees: Winning and Losing in the Business of Baseball
- 3:00 p.m. (Room 200) – “The Laws and Litigation Safeguarding Intellectual Property Against Infringement and Piracy”
- Moshe Bonder ’03, Regional General Counsel – Americas, CG Power Solutions USA Inc.
- Susan E. Farley, Principal, Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.
- Martin Schwimmer, Partner, Leason Ellis LLP
- 4:00 p.m. (Dean Alexander Moot Courtroom) – “If You Build It, They Will Come: A Discussion On Stadium Construction”
- Joseph Gunn, New York City Corporation Counsel
- Katherine Baynes, Partner, DLA Piper LLP
- Michael Klein, Town Attorney, Town of Ramapo
- Moderator: David Fernandez ’92, Partner, Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP
- 5:15 p.m. (Outside Dean Alexander Moot Courtroom) – Coffee Break
- 5:45 p.m. (Dean Alexander Moot Courtroom) – “The Legal State Of Our National Pastimes”
- JR Rickert, President and CEO, National Sports Management
- Douglas Gladstone, Author, A Bitter Cup of Coffee: How MLB and The Players Association Threw 874 Retirees a Curve
- David L. Snyder, Professor, Department of Sport Management at the State University of New York College at Cortland
- Rick Murphy, Vice President, General Manager, Partner, Tri-City Valley Cats
- Moderator: Hank Domin, Sports Editor, Albany Times Union
- 7:00 p.m. (East Foyer) – Extra Innings Reception with hot dog cart and Cracker Jacks. Book signings by Douglas Gladstone, John Thorn and Henry D. Fetter.
Cost: Free.
