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The New Era in Gaming Law

hosted by
Northern Kentucky Law Review

The W. Bruce Lunsford Academy for Law, Business + Technology

March 20, 2015
9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Complimentary
5.5 CLE credit hours applied for in KY, OH, and IN

CLE MATERIALS

The Northern Kentucky Law Review and the W. Bruce Lunsford Academy for Law, Business + Technology hosted the Northern Kentucky Law Review Symposium on Friday, March 20, 2015. The symposium, “The New Era in Gaming Law,” explored emerging regulatory and legalization issues regarding sports betting, fantasy sports, and online gaming. It included a student scholarship showcase of law review students presenting their student notes on gaming law issues during a luncheon.

 

Professor Walter T. Champion George Foreman Professor of Law, Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University

Professor Marc Edelman Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business, City University of New York

Attorney Kate Lowenhar-Fisher Dickinson Wright PLLC, Las Vegas, Nevada

Dr. Ryan Rodenberg The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida


Professor I. Nelson Rose Whittier Law School, Costa Mesa, California

Dean Jeffrey A. Standen Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law

Attorney Daniel L. Wallach Becker & Poliakoff, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

The New Era in Gaming Law Schedule of Events

Griffin Hall, George and Ellen Rieveschl Digitorium

9:00 a.m.  Welcome Dean Jeffrey A. Standen, Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law Editor-in-Chief Brian Morris, Northern Kentucky Law Review

9:15 a.m. – REGULATING FANTASY SPORTS Professor Marc Edelman, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York

Attorney Kate Lowenhar-Fisher, Dickinson Wright PLLC, Las Vegas, Nevada

“Pay to Play Fantasy Sports: Am I going to get into trouble?”

Dean Jeffrey A. Standen, Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law

10:55 a.m. BREAK

11:15 a.m. THE FUTURE AND PROLIFERATION OF GAMING Professor I. Nelson Rose, Whittier Law School, Costa Mesa, California

“Casinos at the End of the World” “Gambling and the Law®: 19th Century Games, 21st Century Players” “Gambling and the Law®: Gambling Games of the Future”

Attorney Daniel Wallach, Becker & Poliakoff, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

“The Unusual Path to “Inevitable” Sports Betting Legalization”

Attorney Kate Lowenhar-Fisher, Dickinson Wright PLLC, Las Vegas, Nevada

The remainder of the symposium will be in the Student Union Ballroom

1:00 p.m. STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP SHOWCASE LUNCHEON Jay Wampler, Northern Kentucky Law Review, “Every Time I Call It a Game, You Say It’s a Business. Every Time I Call It a Business, You Say It’s a Game.”

Jonah Ottley, Northern Kentucky Law Review, “Fantasy Sports and Gambling: Drawing a Line in the Sand Between Pete Rose’s Gambling and Daily-Play Fantasy Sports” 

2:10 p.m. THE LANDSCAPE OF GAMING REGULATIONS Professor Walter Champion, Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, Texas

Professor Ryan Rodenberg, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

“The Sports Bribery Act: A Law and Economics Approach”

3:30 p.m. ROUNDTABLE

4:30 p.m.  RECEPTION

The symposium has been approved for 5.5 hours of general CLE credits in Ohio and is anticipated to be approved for 5.5 hours of general CLE credits in Kentucky and Indiana. 

Contact Administrative Director Jeannine Abukhater Lambert at centers-institutes@nku.edu or (859) 572-6403.