International Sports Lawyer Paul J. Greene

Paul was named one of Maine’s 10 most intriguing people in 2016. 

Publications

• United States Anti-Doping Agency v. Montgomery: Paving a New Path to Conviction in Olympic Doping Cases, 59 Maine Law Review 149 (2007)
• Boats, Baseballs and What a Repeal of the Cuban Refugee Adjustment Act Might Mean for Both, Entertainment and Sports Lawyer (2009)
• Is the International Olympic Committee Above The Law? Entertainment and Sports Lawyer (2010)
• NBA Lockout: Implications for Europe, World Sports Law Report (2011)
• International Olympic Committee’s Rule 45 thrown out: Is the British Olympic Association’s Bylaw 25 the next to go? World Sports Law Report (2011)
• Incorrect Sanctions and Impact on Anti-Doping, World Sports Law Report (2012)
• Beyond Doping Cases: A Primer on Olympic Jurisprudence as London 2012 Approaches, Entertainment and Sports Lawyer (2012)
• Lance Armstrong and WADA’s Statute of Limitations, World Sports Law Report (2013)
• The International Tennis Federation’s Anti-Doping Programme is Under Attack, LawInSport (2013)
• A-Rod Suspended, World Sports Law Report (2014)
• Redskins Trademarks Cancelled, World Sports Law Report (2014)
• A short guide to the changes under the World Anti-Doping Code, LawInSport (2015)
• How the USOC’s SafeSport Policies are Tackling Athlete Abuse, LawInSport (2015)
• Deflategate ruling overturns NFL suspension, World Sports Law Report (2015)
• Is Ryan Lochte’s punishment fair? Sports Litigation Alert (2016)
• CAS reduces Sharapova doping ban, World Sports Advocate (2016)
• Proposed anti-doping reforms in the wake of the Russia scandal, World Sports Advocate (2016)
• When athletes are wrongly sanctioned under the World Anti-Doping Code (Maryland J. of Int’l Law) (2017)
• The case of Paola Pliego and the false positive, World Sports Advocate (2017)
• Should marijuana and cannabinoids still be banned for use in sports? LawInSport (2017)
• A Review of the Arijan Ademi decision at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, LawInSport (2017)
• The current state of the US when it comes to FIFA (Football Legal) (2017)
• Why WADA should reclassify cocaine as a “non-specified substance” - the inequitable case of José Paolo Guerrero LawInSport (2018)
• The Ezekiel Elliott case and the NFL’s six game ban (World Sports Advocate) (2018)
• How athletes’ rights can be better protected when it comes to retroactive Therapeutic Use Exemptions, The International Sports Law Journal (2019) 
• Gender discrimination impact on US sports, Global Sports Law and Taxation Reports (2019/2020)
• Coronavirus: The Impact of the Pandemic on Women’s Sports in the USA, Global Sports Law and Taxation Reports (2020)
• More Lenient Sanctions Made Available Under the New World Anti-Doping Code, LawInSport (2021)
•  Will the Tokyo Olympic Games be “Apolitical”? ANZSLA Commentator (2021)
• Contributing author SPORTING SUCCESSION IN FOOTBALL International Sports Law and Policy Bulletin 1/2022 (2022)

Conferences

• Athletes’ rights under the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act, Florida Coastal School of Law (2010)
• Athletes’ rights and Rule 45 of the Olympic Charter, Law, Policy and the Olympic Movement, Ithaca College London (2011)
• Law and the Olympic Movement, University of Maine School of Law (2011)
• Sports Law 101: National Business Institute (2011)
• “What do to when your athlete tests positive”, USA Track & Field Annual Athlete Representative Conference, 2013-2019
• Panelist, Athlete Welfare – Health, Doping Finance and Education, LawinSport Conference, London (2015)
• Panelist, Tackling Doping in Sport Conference, London (2015)
• Ins and Outs of International Sports Law, American Bar Association International Conference, Toronto (2015)
• Law and the Olympics, Harvard Law School (2015)
• Doping and Drug Testing Issues, Sports Lawyers Association, Baltimore (2015)
• Athlete Biological Passport Program, Tackling Doping in Sport, London (2015)
• Doping in Football, Player Contracts, London (2016)
• Representing athletes in anti-doping proceedings, Sports Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada Annual Meeting, Vancouver (2016)
• Athlete representation in an arbitration, Tackling Doping in Sport, London (2016)
• Broadening the scope of sports law, Chapman University School of Law (2017)
• The Court of Arbitration for Sport, Sports Lawyers Association, Denver (2017)
• Helping an athlete through an anti-doping offense, Tackling Doping in Sport, London (2017)
• Sports, Drugs and Olympic Redemption, University of North Carolina School of Law (2017)
• Mock Sports Arbitration, Sports Lawyers Association, Washington D.C. (2018)
• Better Protecting Athletes’ Rights when it comes to Retroactive TUE’s, The Hague (2018)
• Sports Arbitration, International Chamber of Commerce, Ottawa (2018)
• Arbitrating Sports Disputes, Georgetown Law School (2019)
• The World Anti-Doping Code, Partnership for Clean Competition, London (2019)
• Is it time for a more holistic approach to sports integrity? LawInSport, London (2019)
• The World Anti-Doping Code, International Forum on Sports Law, London (2020)
• New World Anti-Doping Code in Arbitration, CAS Seminar, Montreal (2020)
• The Impact of Postponing the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Sports Lawyers Association, Virtual (2020)
• The World Anti-Doping Code and Football, LawInSport, Virtual (2020)
• Mock Sports Arbitration, Sports Lawyers Association, Virtual (2021)
• Arbitration and Sports Disputes, Abu Dhabi CAS Alternative Hearing Centre, Virtual (2021)
• The Voice of the Athlete in International Sport, Play the Game Conference (Odense, Denmark) (2022)
• Anti-doping and the Impact on the Athlete, World Player Development Conference (Nyon, Switzerland) (2022)
• NGB Best Legal Practices – Selection Procedures (Oklahoma City, OK) (2022)
• Unintentional Anti-Doping Rule Violations, FIFPRO Legal Congress (Amsterdam, Netherlands) (2023)
• The 3 “Russia Cases” at the CAS, Rex Sport General Assembly (Ravello, Italy) (2023)