How the burger court came to be

Authors

Steven P. Gietschier, Lindenwood University

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Title

Sport and the Law: Historical and Cultural Intersections

Abstract

This essay is an expanded version of a commentary presented after a roundtable discussion at the 2006 convention of the North American Society for Sport history in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. The session was called “Law and order: Sport and the warren Burger Court, 1971–1972.” Its focus was three cases decided by the United States Supreme Court early in the tenure of warren E. Burger, chief justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986. The three cases areClay, aka Ali v. U.S., 403 U.S. 698 (1971) in which boxer Muhammad Ali, denied status as a conscientious objector based...

DOI

https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1ffjfzh.10

Publication Date

1-2014

Recommended Citation

Gietschier, Steven P., "How the burger court came to be" (2014). Faculty Scholarship. 209.
https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/faculty-research-papers/209