Who We Are

The Institute represents a combined effort of the Santa Clara University School of Law, the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, and the Department of Athletics. This unique partnership will:

• Develop and offer high quality educational programming on important and timely issues of law, sports and competition

   

• Provide research materials and relevant scholarship on current issues in professional and amateur athletics

   

• Encourage community awareness and support for amateur and professional sports teams, and

   

• Engage in additional activities that will strengthen sports in the Bay Area

   

• Form task forces to deal with current ethical problems

   

• Sponsor a Scholar-in-Residence at Santa Clara Law on the subject of sports law and ethics

   

• Award an annual cash prize to the person or institution that makes the most significant contribution to the field of sports law and ethics

   

• Sponsor an award ceremony for the above prize, at which the recipient will make a speech about his or her work

   

• Engage in outreach with youth athletic programs on ethical issues

   

The creation of the Institute of Sports Law and Ethics (ISLE) is important because there are major ethical problems in the field of sports that are not being comprehensively addressed by any institution.

Save the Date!

September 6, 2012
more info will be posted in late Spring 2012