KAMLOOPS – The Students Law Society (SLS) at TRU Law are set to host their annual conference on February 2-3, 2017. This year’s theme is In the Spotlight: Sports, Media and Entertainment Law. The event is open to the public.

The conference is organized entirely by TRU Law students. Organizers have worked hard to schedule a lineup of high profile and acclaimed professionals in the fields of sports, media and entertainment who will deliver talks on relevant and interesting topics in these popular fields, including:

Keynote: Paul Haagenson (president, Live Nation Canada) will be giving us a closer look at how his operations are run and how decisions (many of which are legal decisions) are made.

Peter Lawless (vice-president, Canadian Olympic Committee) – Doping/Sports Arbitration
Paul Melia (president and CEO of the Canadian Centre of Ethics in Sport) – Ethics in Sports
Michael McCann (legal analyst for Sports Illustrated)
Gilles Daigie (general legal counsel, SOCAN – Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada)
Jennifer Keim (senior legal counsel at the BCLC)
Karim Amlani (senior legal counsel, Hootsuite)
Plus a slate of other speakers and panelists discussing topics such as:
TRU Law Associate Dean and sports law expert Jon Heshka on negligence in extreme sports
TRU Law third-year student Kyle Sandulescu on NCAA concussion liability
TRU Law third-year student Kris Kinash on NHL regional blackouts and Canada’s Competition Act
Kyle and Kris recently represented TRU Law at the Hockey Arbitration Competition of Canada
TRU Law Assistant Professor Ryan Gauthier on Human rights violations and hosting the Olympics, a topic on which he recently published a new book
TRU alum Donya Vahidi on entertainment law

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