The Current State of Student-Athlete NIL Rights: How Congress Should Respond to the Rapidly Changing Landscape of Inter-Collegiate Sports

Authors

Kyle Aronson

First Page

249

Last Page

293

Abstract

Collegiate student-athletes began signing sponsorship deals that compensate them for their name, image and likeness beginning in July 2021. Since its inception, the NCAA has prohibited student-athletes from receiving any outside monetary compensation to preserve traditional notions of amateurism. States have begun to pass legislation that allow for student-athlete compensation following recent decisions by the Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit suggesting that the NCAA’s historic practice may run afoul of antitrust law. This comment analyzes issues with the current state-by-state patchwork of laws that formulate the current landscape of collegiate sports. Finally, this comment will show why centralized, federal regulation is essential for maintaining the competitive integrity of collegiate sports as well as providing a logistical roadmap of how to form that regulation.

Recommended Citation

Kyle Aronson, The Current State of Student-Athlete NIL Rights: How Congress Should Respond to the Rapidly Changing Landscape of Inter-Collegiate Sports, 43 J. Nat’l Ass’n Admin. L. Judiciary 249 (2022)
Available at: https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/naalj/vol43/iss1/6