Education & Sports Law Group Partner Janet Judge joins ADU’s Tai M. Brown at the 2024 Women Leaders Convention to offer insights into the legal challenges facing today’s athletics landscape. Judge and Brown reflect on issues such as the House settlement, Johnson case and related NLRB cases, a recent NCAA study on online harassment and social abuse, and Title IX implications from all ongoing changes. Judge: “Football [is] quite important. The challenge is keeping the pipeline of Olympic sports, men’s and women’s, and not losing the diversity of sport as we move forward in the current legal landscape.” Judge also discusses the impact of today’s challenges on the way leaders think strategically, develop a team and build out their department: “At the one time where all the legal pressures and social pressures may be leading some people in athletics to become even more insular, it’s absolutely the time where we need to not be insular.”
The conversation is indexed below for efficient viewing: - 1:06 - What was the inflection point in your life that propelled you into a career in sports law?
- 3:48 - And it just kind of took off from there.
- 5:46 - What's on your mind these days? As a thinker and an educator, what issues are most pressing, from your perspective?
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11:41 - What do you find amongst administrators in terms of their willingness to understand that this is a time of significant change and you can't think in terms of the normal ways of thinking?
- 13:38 - Is there an area that you find a common lack of knowledge or lack of motivation amongst the people you work with in terms of what's happening now?
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15:07 - We may hear an interpretation of information from people outside the industry, so that people inside the industry think that's the direction we should be going, even though it may not be the way we should go...
- 17:43 - Title IX is one of the areas you focus on in your practice; does Title IX go out the window if football becomes its own entity?
- 21:19 - If you go to school to get a law degree or MBA or PhD - are you equipped to handle what's coming in the future?
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