Sports Law Clinic

Sports Law clinical placements are in a variety of settings, including legal departments of major leagues or sports franchises, and with law firms and lawyers doing sports law in representing individual players, teams, or leagues. Students' clinical work in the field can may include contract and transactional work, arbitration, litigation, research, and writing. 

Peter Carfagna, instructor of sports law courses at HLS, oversees clinical placements and students' clinical work. Admission in the clinic is by application, and priority is given to students who have taken or will take one of Peter Carfagna's sports law courses. 

Clinical and Course Information

Sports Law Clinic
Winter or Spring clinical
Open to 2L, 3L and LLM students with permission of instructor
Pre- or co-requisites: Sports Law: Advanced Contract Drafting (offered in Fall 2012); Sports and the Law: Examining the Legal History and Evolution of America's Three "Major League" Sports: MLB, NFL and NBA (offered in Fall 2012); Sports and the Law: Representing the Professional Athlete (offered in Winter 2013)
Application deadline: Fri, Oct 5

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