In recent years, concussions in sports has emerged as a major public health concern. As no medical cure exists, there is an onus on policymakers to make headway in preventing sports concussions through new regulation. I trace recent initiatives of Canada's federal government to address the concussion crisis in sports. The government's approach to prevention is analyzed using concepts from regulatory theory and design. The analysis reveals a scheme that is promising, but on which much work remains to be done in putting the vision into practice, and developing regulation that can significantly reduce concussions in sports.
A light lunch will be available.
This lecture qualifies for one hour of a CPD credit.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Marcus Moore is an Assistant Professor at UBC's Peter A. Allard School of Law where he currently teaches courses in Sports Law, Contracts, and Jurisprudence. Prior to joining UBC, he was a Clarendon scholar at Oxford University, where he earned his doctorate in law. Previously, he was a law clerk to Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin at the Supreme Court of Canada. He earned his LL.B and B.C.L. degrees from McGill University, where he was the law school's Gold Medalist. Marcus completed his undergraduate education at Harvard University (Mathematics). He is the author of the forthcoming book Regulating Boilerplate: Resolving the Issues of Imposition and Unfairness in Standard Form Contracts (Bloomsbury, 2022). Based on his Oxford dissertation supervised by Hugh Collins, Vinerian Chair at All Souls, the book provides a new and compelling socio-legal analysis of standard form contracting, along with a systematic inquiry informed by principles of regulatory theory and design into solutions to the long-vexing problems of imposed and unfair boilerplate terms. He is also the co-editor of an essay collection on the judicial legacy of Beverley McLachlin (LexisNexis, 2018), and an award-winning book on regulation of professional hockey Saving the Game (Random House, 2006). He is a draft pick of the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins (retired due to injury) and mentored his two younger brothers to Harvard and the NHL.
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