Risk Management for Venues in the Sports Industry-MSLB

SLN #: 26774
Course Prefix: SLB-598
Course Section: 006
Credit Hours: 3
Instructor(s): Adelman
Course Books: View List of Books

Course Description:
Sports and entertainment law is full of bizarre and amazing fact patterns, particularly as one examines what people do at live events, which is the focus of this seminar.

Procedurally, cases involving risk management and mayhem at live events are well-suited for discussion, argument, and hypotheticals, all of which will help you learn to think like a lawyer.

Substantively, many of our fact patterns will be "ripped from the headlines." This is because so many people engage in some form of mass entertainment every day that the news provides an endless array of fact patterns by which to test common legal ideas. Given the myriad ways in which people hurt themselves and others and break things, we will explore the slapstick of the legal profession.

Once we establish the basic elements of tort and contract law, we will use primary source material to find the outer limits of reasonably acceptable risks for stadiums, arenas, concert venues, and festivals. Event operations professionals get paid to say "yes," then to figure out a safe and legal way to allow the artistic vision to unfold. Our course will start from the same mindset. From there, we will proceed deep into the shades of gray in which good lawyers make their living.

Grades will be based largely on (1) a paper, in which students will select from one of several scenarios of disaster at a live event venue, then argue liability from the perspective of a plaintiff for a defendant, as well as (2) oral argument of that position before noted jurist Steven A. Adelman.

Additional Information:
Credit Hours: 3
Grading Option: Letter Grade Only
Written Assignment: Paper Required
Graduation Writing Requirement: No
Flexible/Upper-Level Writing Requirement: Yes, With Instructor's Approval
Skills Requirement: No
Simulation Course: No
Experiential Learning: No
Seminar: No
Special Withdrawal Course: No
Final Exam Given: No
Attendance Policy: Per Statement Of Student Policies
Online Course Site: Link

* The law school has a policy that is used to calculate credit hours. Please see the Statement of Student Policies.