Discrimination Issues in Sports: Race, Gender & Sexual Orientation January 18, 2008

Sports Law Institute Symposium Confronts Discrimination in Sports

Loyola Law School’s Sports Law Institute will present “Discrimination Issues in Sports: Race, Gender & Sexual Orientation” from 8:30 am to 3:45 pm on Loyola’s downtown LA campus. Top major-league team personnel and sports scholars will lead a series of panels on race, gender and sexual orientation discrimination. Notable panelists include Dusty Baker, Cincinnati Reds manager and veteran Major League Baseball player; Kim Ng, vice president and assistant general manager, LA Dodgers; Nona M. Lee, vice president and general counsel, Arizona Diamondbacks; and Anita DeFrantz, member, International Olympic Committee Women and Sport Commission.

The Race Discrimination panel runs from 8:30-10:15 am. It features panelists Baker; William B. Gould, IV, professor emeritus, Stanford Law School; and Kenneth L. Shropshire, David W. Hauck Professor at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. The Gender Discrimination panel runs from 10:30 am-12:15 pm. Panelists are DeFrantz, member, International Olympic Committee, chair, IOC Women & Sport Commission and president, LA 84 Foundation; Lee; Jacqueline Michaels, Office for Civil Rights, US Dept. of Education; and Ng. The final panel, Sexual Orientation Discrimination, runs from 2-3:45 pm. Panelists are DeFrantz, Lee, Michaels and Ng. Professor Daniel E. Lazaroff, director of the Sports Law Institute, will moderate.

Registration for the symposium and lunch is $50, or $70 for five hours of MCLE credit. Students and members of the media are invited to attend free of charge. For media access, please contact Brian Costello at 213-736-1444 (desk), 213-923-0609 (cell) or brian.costello@lls.edu. Visit events.lls.edu/sli/08 for more details.

Official Website: http://events.lls.edu/sli/08