Speaker Biographical Information

Janet Judge is president of Sports Law Associates LLC, where she brings her legal and diverse collegiate athletic experiences to the table when advising and representing colleges and universities on a wide variety of employment and sports-related issues. In addition to her law practice, Ms. Judge is also a NCAA grant speaker and trainer. Ms. Judge is one of the attorneys hired by the NCAA to draft its successful amicus brief in the Davis case. She is the co-author of the recently released NCAA Manual on Title IX, co-authored the NCAA News bi-weekly column “Gender Equity Q & As,” and is on the editorial board of College Athletics and the Law. Ms. Judge’s publications include a number of articles and chapters on collegiate compliance, including “Title IX and Athletics” for the College and University Law Manual, (ed., R.W. Iuliano, 2011). She is included in the Best Lawyers in America in the areas of Sports and Employment Law and has been named a SuperLawyer for her Intercollegiate Sports Law work. In 2011, the National Association of Women Athletic Administrators (NACWAA) named her Administrator of the Year for Athletic Organizations. A graduate of Harvard College, Ms. Judge served as Vice-Chair on its athletics oversight committee. Upon graduation from law school, she clerked for the Honorable Norman H. Stahl, United States Court of Appeals. Ms. Judge is admitted to practice law before state and federal courts in both Maine and Massachusetts.

Peter G. Land is a partner of Franczek Radelet P.C. in Chicago, Illinois. He has been focused on representing institutions of higher education since 1995 in a wide array of litigation and counseling matters, with an emphasis on employment litigation. Pete represents private and public sector institutions ranging from liberal arts colleges to major research universities and their accompanying medical schools and medical centers, and he also worked on an interim basis in the general counsel's offices of two universities. Pete received his law degree from the Northwestern University School of Law and his undergraduate degree from DePauw University.

Tracy B. Mitrano is the director of IT Policy and the Institute for Computer Policy and Law at Cornell University. Currently she is on the boards of the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education, Teach Privacy, Cornell Daily Sun (the independent student newspaper at Cornell University), the Tompkins County Broadband Committee, Tompkins County Public Library and is co-chair of the Hawkins Leadership Roundtable for EDUCAUSE. A graduate and faculty member of the Frye Institute, Mitrano served as faculty for EDUCAUSE's Seminars on Academic Computing, the Executive Leadership Institute and the Leadership Institute, and was a member of the EDUCAUSE Board 2006-2010. She served as a member of the InCommon Steering Committee for two terms, from 2004-2010 and has been a frequent speaker at conferences, colleges and universities on the subjects of Internet national and institutional policy, electronic surveillance and government regulation, copyright, social networking and privacy. Mitrano has a doctorate in American Women's History from Binghamton University and a law degree from Cornell Law School. She has an appointment in the Department of Computing Information Science at Cornell University, where she teaches a course "Culture, Law and Politics of the Internet." Mitrano writes a blog for Inside Higher Ed entitled "Law, Policy and IT?" In June she spoke at NACUA on cloud computing, and in September was a U.S. Embassy invited speaker to the Florentine Consulate in Italy at a conference on international copyright enforcement.