On behalf of 65 professors, this brief supports the student-athletes in NCAA v. Alston. The brief has three main points.First, the Petitioners (the NCAA and athletics conferences) seek to unwind a century of antitrust law by obtaining immunity for anticompetitive conduct. The NCAA, alone among...

Fall Saturdays and college football. The March Madness basketball tournament. The NCAA plays an important role in many Americans’ lives. But for decades, the association has justified its restrictions on compensation to student-athletes on the basis of “amateurism.” Those attempts just ran...

In O’Bannon v. National Collegiate Athletic Ass’n, then-Chief Judge Claudia Wilken of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a groundbreaking decision, potentially opening the floodgates for challenges to National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)...