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Anew online journal developed by students at Harvard Law School (HLS) aims to shed light on the area of sports and entertainment law.

Students received approval for the Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law in August and will release the inaugural issue of the annual online publication in the spring of 2010. Within the next couple of years, the journal’s founders hope to launch a printed version of the publication that will publish twice yearly.

Through a collection of scholarly essays and articles, the new publication, states its Web site, intends to “provide the academic community, the sports and entertainment industries, and the broader legal profession with scholarly analysis and research related to the legal aspects of the sports and entertainment communities.”

“There are a lot of legal issues in this field and there aren’t many scholarly outlets for the investigation of these issues,” said one of the journal’s founders and its editor-in-chief, HLS student Ashwin Krishnan ’05, J.D. ’10. “We want to explore this field in depth and treat it in a scholarly and rigorous fashion.”

Krishnan, who worked with the Boston Celtics during the 2008-09 academic year, noted that there is enthusiasm on the part of both students and faculty for the new journal as well as a need for it to fill an important academic hole.

[Harvard Gazette]

North Dakota attorneys are getting a briefing on the state`s new law on publicly traded corporations. The University of North Dakota`s law school is hosting a forum on the law in Bismarck today. It was approved two years ago as a way to give shareholders a stronger voice in how their companies are run. One company has approved switching its corporate home from Delaware to North Dakota as a result of the law. Shareholders in more than a dozen companies have voted on the issue.

Attorney William Clark Jr. drafted the law. He`ll be speaking at today`s conference. He says shareholders around the country are gradually getting the word about the new law.

One aspect of the law is — it requires all company directors to be elected every year. Under Delaware law directors can get terms as long as three years. Clark says elections every year help keep company boards more accountable. But Clark says most company directors and the attorneys who advise them aren`t likely to advocate reincorporating in North Dakota because it would mean learning a whole new set of rules.

[kfyrtv.com]

This two-day conference will cover key issues associated with player-generated, computer animated cinema that is based on 3D game and virtual world environments. Speakers include machinima artists/players, legal experts, commercial game developers, theorists, and more. Topics include: game art, game hacking, open source and “modding,” player/consumer-driven innovation, cultural/technology studies, fan culture, legal and business issues, transgressive play, game preservation, and notions of collaborative co-creation drawn from virtual worlds and online games. Films will be shown throughout the conference, including: Douglas Grayeton’s Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator and Joshua Diltz’ Mercy of the Sea.

[Electronic Frontier Foundation]

Accordingly, the Law Review of the Texas Wesleyan University Law School is hosting a two-day symposium on urban gas drilling Thursday and Friday. The symposium, to be held at the law school at 1515 Commerce St. in downtown Fort Worth, is sponsored by Fort Worth-based XTO Energy, one of the nation’s most successful independent oil and gas producers.

[Star Telegram]