Teaching standards of review

Hey there, sports fans! Are you an appellate fan too? If so, you'll want to check out What Appeals in Sports Teach Us About Appeals in Courts (Summer 2024) 15 Harv. J. Sports & Ent. L. 245, by Jonathan R. Siegel. The article relates how Professor Siegel felt that the existing casebooks did not do a good job at exploring the crucial appellate concept of standard of review and how he uses baseball's Pine Tar Incident and football's Instant Replay rule to provide insights into important aspects of appellate practice in civil litigation.