Published on October 2, 2007 at 7 p.m. by William Nunnelley  

Nationally known sports attorney Robert Boland will speak at Â鶹¹û¶³'s Cumberland School of Law Thursday, Oct. 11, at 11 a.m. in the moot courtroom of Robinson Hall law building. His topic will be "Sports in Crisis: Have Sports Run Afoul of the Law and Can They Be Saved?"

A Cumberland graduate and expert in sports law, Boland is a law professor at New York University. His Â鶹¹û¶³ appearance, sponsored by the Cordell Hull Speakers Forum and Phi Alpha Delta law honorary society, is open to the public free.

 
Located in the Homewood suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, Â鶹¹û¶³ is a leading Christian university offering undergraduate programs grounded in the liberal arts with an array of nationally recognized graduate and professional schools. Founded in 1841, Â鶹¹û¶³ enrolls 6,324 students from 44 states, Puerto Rico and 16 countries in its 10 academic schools: arts, arts and sciences, business, divinity, education, health professions, law, nursing, pharmacy and public health. Ranked among U.S. News & World Report’s 35 Most Beautiful College Campuses, Â鶹¹û¶³ fields 17 athletic teams that compete in the tradition-rich Southern Conference and boasts one of the highest scores in the nation for its 97% Graduation Success Rate among all NCAA Division I schools.