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Joseph M. Kelly, Ph.D., J.D., is a Professor of Business Law at State College at Buffalo, and an associate of the Law Offices of Catania & Associates, L.L.C. and Catania Consulting Group of New Jersey, specializing in gaming matters. He is licensed to practice law in Illinois, Nevada and Wisconsin.
Professor Kelly is co-editor of the Gaming Law Review, a leading gaming law report. He is considered an expert in the field of gaming, having lectured on various gaming topics worldwide. His law review publications have been cited as authority by federal and state courts in the United States.
Articles published by Professor Kelly regarding Internet gambling law and problem gambling were presented to the British Parliament by the Secretary of State of Culture Media and Sport and a report he co-authored entitled “Problem Gaming and Self Exclusion” was accepted by the South African Responsible Gambling Trust.
Professor Kelly has been used as an expert witness for several gaming companies, the United States Virgin Islands Casino Control Commission, the South African Parliamentary Committee on Trade and Industry and in the trial of R v Kelly (Gutshot) in Snaresbrook Crown Court (London), UK.
The recent ‘Bwin Liga’ decision in the European Court of Justice underlined how the perceived connection between gambling businesses, money laundering and crime remains a significant global issue - but further studies have found little cause for concern in well-regulated jurisdictions, write Professor Joe Kelly of SUNY College, Buffalo and Mark Clayton, a former Nevada gaming regulator and lawyer with Lionel Sawyer & Collins in Las Vegas.
Throughout the world, compulsive gamblers, except in Canada and certain European countries, have generally been unsuccessful in recovering monies lost as a result of returning to casino gambling after signing a self-exclusion form.
Fantasy sports received a specific carve-out under the United States’ 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act but their legality in the US and other worldwide jurisdictions has yet to be fully defined, finds Professor Joseph Kelly in this article highlighting global approaches to fantasy sports games from a gambling law perspective.
Whilst gaming operators in the Republic of Ireland have been waiting for the introduction of licensed casinos, poker tournaments have regularly been staged in private members clubs, without attracting the attention of the authorities. The situation in Northern Ireland is somewhat different, however.
