Many have commented to me over the past weeks, something to the tune of, “You must be busy writing about sport ethics issues these days!” While true, it’s not true in the sense they imagine. There certainly are some profoundly…
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Many have commented to me over the past weeks, something to the tune of, “You must be busy writing about sport ethics issues these days!” While true, it’s not true in the sense they imagine. There certainly are some profoundly…
At first blush, one likely would respond instantly, “Of course it is unethical to do what you’ve described in a sporting contest. How is this even questionable?” Let’s look at the sport of football, and let’s assume this situation: Team…
We are in the process of finalizing placements for a Spring, Summer or Fall internship at UNESCO-Paris, or UNESCO-Cambodia. The internships are unpaid, but you can earn up to 12 units of academic credit in Spring or Fall, or 8…
Governor Brown recently approved compensation to Northern California Innocence Project clients Franky Carrillo Jr. and Johnny Williams for their decades of wrongful imprisonment. This came after approval by the Legislature and the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board’s recommendation…
What follows is a transcript of the audience comments during our Interactive Session at the 5th Annual Sports Law & Ethics Symposium. While audience members spoke I transcribed their comments in a live feed on the screens. As you’ll see,…
“Today,” I began, standing behind the podium at Santa Clara University’s Fifth Annual Sports Law & Ethics Symposium, “I am the moderator.” I let the comment float amongst the audience as they looked at the empty seats on stage which…
On September 2nd, Henry Lee McCollum, 50, and Leon Brown, 46, were ordered released from prison by a North Carolina judge after DNA evidence proved them innocent of a 1983 rape and murder for which they had been convicted. The…
I wrote this over the past weekend in Washington, D.C., where I was attending and speaking at meetings of the Knight Commission on College Athletics. I was interested in how the decision of the San Francisco Forty Niners to play…
The National Institute of Justice released a report today which explores the feasibility of using a learning-from-error model in criminal justice. The report, Mending Justice: Sentinel Events Reviews, draws on lessons from the medical and aviation fields and offers perspectives on using…
California Assembly Bill 885, which authorizes courts to inform a jury when a prosecutor has intentionally concealed evidence of innocence, recently passed off the Assembly floor and is headed to Governor Brown’s desk to be signed. AB 885, authored by…