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The Fate of College Athletics After House:
Legal and Practical Perspectives
Hosted by the Office of Diversity
College athletics have undergone a seismic shift in recent years that impact multiple practice areas of the legal profession, including labor law, intellectual property law, contract law and antitrust law. Payments to athletes for their “name, image, and likeness” (NIL) and billions of dollars in revenue-sharing from their school’s media rights deals and game ticket sales will transform college athletics forever. The “amateurism” model championed by the NCAA for decades is dead.
But what will college athletics look like under these new compensation structures? How will universities with limited financial resources that are not part of the “Power” conferences afford to recruit and pay their athletes? What happens to non-revenue “Olympic” sports that generate no money for their school’s athletic programs? What are the implications of these new payment structures for women’s sports under Title IX? Will Congress weigh in on the current chaos in college sports?
Join leading industry executives, scholars, and sports law professionals to discuss:
- Practical impacts of athlete compensation on colleges and universities
- Whether these new compensation structures create their own antitrust issues for the NCAA and athletic conferences
- Institutional responses to the additional financial burdens imposed on universities by these payments
- The applicability of Title IX to these payments, which will overwhelmingly go to male athletes
- How this shift in compensation impacts the legal status of college athletes as “employees”
- Prospects for federal legislation and regulation of NIL and revenue-sharing
Learn about these issues and more from our expert panelists as they take a deep dive into the ever-changing state of college athletics.
Course Planner / Panelist / Moderator
Professor Kenneth A. Jacobsen
Practice Professor of Law and Director of Sports Law Program
Temple University Beasley School of Law
Panelists
Professor Jodi S. Balsam
Professor of Clinical Law, Brooklyn Law School
Adjunct Professor of Sports Law, NYU School of Law
Adjunct Professor, NYU Tisch Institute for Sports Management, Media, & Business
Arthur H. Bryant, Esq.
Founder, Arthur Bryant Law, P.C.
Professor Marc Edelman
Professor of Law, Zicklin School of Business
Baruch College, City University of New York
Founder, Edelman Law
Professor Michael McCann
Associate Dean for Intellectual Life
Founding Director, Sports and Entertainment Law Institute
Professor of Law, Franklin Pierce School of Law, University of New Hampshire
Paul McDonald, Esq.
Managing Partner, P L McDonald Law LLC
Laura Reathaford, Esq.
Partner in Charge, Lathrop GPM, Los Angeles
Dr. Karen Weaver, Ed.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Academic Director, Collegiate Athletics Certificate Program
University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education