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A convocation celebration

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Distinguished Chair awards

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Center for Sports Law and Policy

Center for Sports Law and Policy

The Center for Sports Law and Policy at Duke Law School is a forum for sports law and policy-related engagement and programming at the University. Consistent with Duke’s interdisciplinary strengths, the work of the Center examines:

the business of professional, Olympic, and education-based sport
the welfare of athletes, including their health and educational development
the promise of sport as a social good

Affiliated faculty at the Law School and the University bring the tools of their respective academic disciplines to bear on this work, and alumni and guests contribute on-the-ground context and expertise.

Recent Events

The Struggle for Equality in Women’s Soccer
April 6, 2018
A one-day symposium held at the Forum for Scholars and Publics
Head Trauma in Football: Implications for Medicine, Law, and Policy
February 16 - 17, 2018
A program co-sponsored by the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine and the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences
Law and Contemporary Problems Symposium:
Sex in Sport
Conference: August 25, 2017

Duke Law School Faculty

Paul Haagen, Director, Professor of Law

Professor Haagen's principal academic interests are contracts, the social history of law and law and sports.

Katharine T. Bartlett
A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law

Charles Clotfelter
Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy Studies and Professor of Economics, and Professor of Law

Doriane Lambelet Coleman
Professor of Law

James E. Coleman, Jr.
John S. Bradway Professor of the Practice of Law

Kimberly D. Krawiec
Kathrine Robinson Everett Professor of Law

John C. Weistart
Professor of Law

Duke University Faculty

Affiliated Student Organizations