Antitrust in the Sports Industry: An Introduction

• Author: Amanda K. Esquibel,Roger D. Blair
• Date: 01 September 1997
• DOI: 10.1177/0003603X9704200301
• Published date: 01 September 1997
• Subject Matter: Symposium: Antitrust in the Sports Industry

The Antitrust Bulletin/Fall

1997

Antitrust

in

the

sports industry:

an

introduction

BY ROGER D.

BLAIR,*

and

AMANDA

K.ESQUIBEL**

517

The

following

articles are the

product

of

a

conference

held

in

April 1997 at the University

of

Memphis.

The

conference

was

sponsored by the Cecil C. Humphreys School

of

Law and funding

was provided by that school and by the Office

of

the Provost. Our

thanks go to Dr. J. Ivan Legg, University Provost, and Dr. Sidney

A. McPhee, Vice Provost-Academic Affairs, for their support. We

also wish to express

our

appreciation for the efforts

of

all who

made the conference possible. In particular, we thank Donald J.

Polden, Dean of the School

of

Law, for inviting us to his campus

and hosting awonderful event. The articles included in this issue

of

the

Antitrust

Bulletin

are

testaments

to

the

conference's

success.

The authors of the articles in this volume, practicing lawyers,

economists and law professors, bring avariety

of

unique perspec-

tives on law and economics. This diversity, in considerable part,

* Huber Hurst Professor, Department of Economics, University of

Florida.

** Assistant Professor, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, Univer-

sity of Memphis.

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