2023 COUNSEL OF THE YEAR AWARDS TICKETS AND TABLES INFORMATION
After a two-year COVID hiatus, the Association of Media and Entertainment Counsel of the Year Awards will return in January. The pertinent details for the 2023 awards ceremony are:
5 p.m. Red Carpet Arrivals & VIP Reception
6 p.m. General Reception
7 p.m. Awards Ceremony
Thursday, January 19th, 2023
Manhattan Beach Country Club
1330 Parkview Ave, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
To address the winter spike in COVID infections, the awards will feature a “grazing” reception with multiple food stations featuring diverse culinary tastes. Please join a distinguished group of attorneys and executives as we celebrate the top legal minds in the entertainment industry.
Click here for tickets. For tables and sponsorship information, please contact Adishakti Lukic (alukic@theamec.org).
Gambling: A Legal and Philosophical Overview
The following chapters of this book set out a comparative analysis of the laws relating to gambling across a variety of states and jurisdictions. The objective of such a work must necessarily be limited to providing a general guide to the laws in each individual state. However, bringing together these summaries also affords a different opportunity: the chance to compare and contrast different legal approaches. Comparative analysis is important because it helps us to understand rather than simply know the law, by explaining and demonstrating the different cultural contexts in which law has developed to mirror and control the societies in which those laws operate.
Gambling law is an apt topic for such an analysis for a number of reasons. First, compared to some other legal disciplines (such as financial regulation, digital copyright, competition or telecoms law), gambling has a very long history and deep roots in human culture and legislation. To give two examples, until 2007, UK gambling law included contributions from the Gaming Acts dating back as early as 1710 and 1738. The current law relating to gambling in India (the Public Gambling Act) dates from 1867. Prior to reform of the law in 2010, French law on lotteries dated to 1933 and its horse race pari-mutuel betting laws from 1891. There are many other examples.
By Carl Rohsler