NEWTON, MA--Boston College Law School and the BC Law Review will host a free, all-day symposium that examines the legal issues surrounding the unprecedented growth of the NCAA over the last 100 years and the impact on amateurism, academic standards, student rights on Oct. 15. The event is co-sponsored by the law firm Ropes and Gray.

In 1910, the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States was rechristened the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Since that time, the NCAA has grown dramatically to include 400,000 student athletes in 23 sports, with some universities reaping more than $100,000,000 in gross revenue from sports programs. Given such growth, many legal questions arise.

The symposium will feature a special lunchtime program during which Roy Kramer, Former Commissioner of the SEC and Founder of the BCS and Matthew Sanderson, Executive Director of PlayoffPAC, a federal political committee dedicated to the establishment of postseason championship for college football, will discuss postseason football, the BCS and the National Championship. Jeremy Schaap of ESPN will moderate.

Distinguished law faculty from throughout the country will present papers on legal issues surrounding the NCAA, including student-athlete compensation, commercialism and constitutionalism to be published in the Boston College Law Review. NCAA experts will be on hand to weigh in with their opinions during a series of panel discussions throughout the day. Among the panelists expected: Jon Wertheim and Andy Staples of Sports Illustrated; Deborah Corum, the Associate Commissioner of the SEC; Petrina Long, Senior Associate Athletic Director of UCLA, among others. Boston College Law Professors Alfred Yen, Joseph Liu and Richard Albert will present, as well as faculty from the Marquette Law School, U.C. Davis School of Law, Pepperdine Law School and Vermont Law School.

The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required by visiting https://secure.www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/BTNL/events/BTNL2306647.html, or by sending your name, address and affiliation to bclrsymposium2010@gmail.com. For more information on the event and a schedule, visit http://www2.bc.edu/~liujr/special/ncaasymp/index.html. Media interested in covering the event should contact the BC Law Director of Marketing and Communications, Nate Kenyon, at 617-552-1184, or kenyonn@bc.edu.