Last updated on:
12/23/2008 |
Author: ProCon.org
Greg Skidmore, JD Biography
- Title:
- Founder and contributor of the Sports Law Blog
- Position:
- Con to the question "Should Performance Enhancing Drugs (Such as Steroids) Be Accepted in Sports?"
- Reasoning:
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“Steroid abuse has been shown to have horrible consequences, even leading to serious illness and death, and the negative effects of newer drugs are not even known. Players may be leveraging their long-term health for current glory…
For the long-term good of both the players and the game, all of the interested parties should step forward to put an end to this epidemic.”
“Baseball Fans Not Staying Away,” sports-law.blogspot.com, Mar. 9, 2004
- Theoretical Expertise Ranking:
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Experts
Individuals with MDs, JDs, PhDs, or equivalent advanced degrees in fields relevant to performance enhancing drugs and sports. Also top-level government officials (such as foreign leaders, US presidents, Founding Fathers, Supreme Court Justices, members of legislative bodies, cabinet members, military leaders, etc.) with positions relevant to performance enhancing drugs and sports. - Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Founder and contributor, Sports Law Blog
- Litigation associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
- Law clerk, Honorable Julia S. Gibbons, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Former Executive Editor, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology
- Member, Phi Beta Kappa
- Education:
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- JD, cum laude, Harvard Law School, 2005
- BA, summa cum laude, Political Science, Duke University, 2002
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