2025 SRLA Conference

Call for Abstracts

The 2025 Conference is February 26th – March 2nd in Myrtle Beach, SC.

Abstract Submission Guidelines

  • To be considered for acceptance, abstracts must reflect research on legal theory or the application of law to sport, physical activity or recreation management issues. Additionally, proposals indicating research regarding innovative teaching techniques applied to legal issues in sports, physical activity or recreation management will be considered for the Teaching and Learning Symposium.
  • The abstract length is a minimum of 600 words and maximum of 2,000 words, including references. Please include the entire text of your abstract and all of your references in the submission text box in the subsequent ExOrdo submission prompts. The abstract should provide sufficient detail about the presentation so that reviewers can adequately judge its quality. Abstracts will undergo a 2-person blind-review process to determine acceptance.
  • The Conference will be pursuing Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits for a portion of our presentations. These presentations will be packaged together and offered to practitioners. You will be asked to indicate whether you wish for your presentation to be part of the CLE program as part of the abstract submission.
  • Authors may submit a maximum of two (2) abstracts in which he/she is the sole or lead author; an author’s name may not appear on more than three (3) abstracts total. The only exception is in the case of faculty advisor; it must clearly indicate in the author section of the submission that she/he is a faculty advisor and will not be a co-presenter at the conference. If the abstract is accepted, the faculty advisor will be listed in the conference program as an advisor rather than a co-presenter.
  • Abstracts submitted to SRLA may not (a) be concurrently submitted for consideration to another conference, (b) have been previously presented at another conference, or (c) reflect work published prior to September 2024.
  • A student submitting a research project for the Bernard Patrick Maloy Graduate Student Research Award may also submit an abstract of the project in response to the Call for Papers; however, the winning student will only present the work once during the conference program.
  • Submission of an abstract(s) acknowledges the presenter(s) intent to register for the SRLA Conference and present the research (Note: one presenter from each presentation must be registered by the Early Bird Deadline or the session will be removed from the program).
  • If accepted, abstracts will be published in a book of abstracts available online (as well as hard copy for those who wish to purchase). Authors should be aware that their submitted abstract(s) will be included in this official conference publication; there will be no opportunity to make revisions prior to publication.
  • No author changes may be made after the submission deadline!

Abstract Submission Instructions & Deadline

All abstracts must be submitted online using the Ex Ordo Abstract Submission website (no exceptions). Abstracts submitted via email to the Conference Host or Conference Chair will not be accepted!
Click Link Below to submit:

https://srla2025.exordo.com/login

The abstract submission deadline is Friday September 13th, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. EST
Lead authors will be notified of abstract decision by the week of October 14th

For questions regarding the 2025 Conference, please contact:
Kerri Cebula, Executive Director, Conference Coordinator: profcebula@gmail.com
or Jeffrey Levine – Past President: jfl82@drexel.edu