Sports Law and Criminal Law?; Branch Rickey

December 13, 2011

Criminal Law and basketball

If you enjoyed your Criminal Law class in law school, you just may want to dig deeper into this one coming from the Cincinnati-Xavier basketball game
of this past weekend.

Harrison Ford to portray Branch Rickey

Harrison Ford is famous for being Indiana Jones on the big screen, now Ford will take a shot at portraying a sports lawyer. Branch Rickey is of course well known for bringing Jackie Robinson into Major League Baseball. Seldom though do you hear about Rickey the lawyer. Rickey received his law degree from the University of Michigan. Now it looks like another general manager will be portrayed on the big screen, it was just a few months ago that Moneyball, featuring Brad Pitt as Oakland GM Billy Beane made its debut.

For more on Branch Rickey check out this tribute by Justice George Nicholson.

 

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