What Major League Baseball taketh away, we giveth. Just weeks before pitchers and catchers would normally report to Spring Training sites, we bring you a panel discussion, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance style, on Baseball, Law, and Society. MU Ph.D. Candidate Japheth Knopp will present his dissertation research on “The Negro Major Leagues and the Kansas City Black Community, 1920-1948.” Kinder Institute Professor and MU Law Wall Family Fellow Tommy Bennett will follow by re-visiting of the landmark Flood v. Kuhn case on its 50th anniversary, with an eye toward its relationship to baseball’s longstanding and outdated antitrust exemption. And MU Law student and former Toronto Blue Jays beat writer Alexis Brudnicki will discuss where and how Major League Baseball can begin to address the aspects of its industry that have led to a lack of sufficient policy structures to combat the power imbalance existing for women, resulting in inefficient and ineffective avenues for reporting sexual misconduct.
6 фев 2022
