Random Rules
I wrote a guest post for my favorite basketball blog, Free Darko, about the NBA’s new technical foul policy and legal philosophy. Check it out here.
During a particularly inspired round of SSRN browsing for search terms wholly unrelated, I stumbled across an article titled “Legal Formalism, Institutional Norms, and the Morality of Basketball”, which pretty much made me want to give Learned Hand a courtside high-five.
The article revolves around the Suns vs. Spurs 2007 playoffs suspensions and is clearly colored by the author’s frustrations as an NBA fan and legal scholar. Though the article is a few years old, I think it’s a great platform to explore the recent Technical Foul rule change and how the new approach appears to be similarly flawed to those of us who are legal realists, and fans of a League of personalities.
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