Professor Maureen Weston Presents "Defining Fair Play: Rights and Reasonable Accommodations for Athletes with Disabilities and Mental Health Issues in Sports" -- Marquette University Law School

Professor Maureen A. Weston presented "Defining Fair Play: Rights and Reasonable Accommodations for Athletes with Disabilities and Mental Health Issues in Sports" at the Marquette University National Sports Law Institute 35th Anniversary Annual Conference.  Professor Weston discussed the application of disability laws to sports, particularly focusing on the legal rights and obligations surrounding the participation of athletes with physical disabilities and mental health concerns in elite sports and how these rights intersect with the challenges of integrating athletes with disabilities into mainstream sports competitions and the implications for sport governing bodies.  Professor Weston also serves on the board of advisors for the National Sports Law Institute. 

The conference, titled "Perspectives on 35 Years of Sports Law," took place on October 18. The program featured presentations from sports law professors and scholars providing perspectives on the development of sports law and its impact on antitrust law, labor law, Olympic sports and arbitration, gambling, esports, disability and mental health, constitutional rights, gender equity, and race and representation.  The conference also featured a keynote address from Major League Baseball commissioner emeritus Bud Selig, distinguished lecturer in Sports Law and Policy, focusing on developments in baseball over the past 3 decades with a look to the future, and a discussion of the value of the National Sports Law Institute at Marquette University Law School that he was instrumental in creating in the late 1980s.

Additional information may be found at Marquette University National Sports Law Conference