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December 2022 -- Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) of College Athletes

 Registration is closed for this event
Join us at the Rutgers Club for this joint event with the Rutgers LERA chapter on this emerging employment/labor issue.

 

College sports, with huge television contracts for football and men’s basketball, merchandise sales and the like are big business.  For years, sports fans and labor relations specialists have debated whether college athletes, whose labor has historically been rewarded only with a scholarship for tuition, room and board, deserve a piece of the pie insofar as their coaches are often being paid in the millions of dollars.  Due to legal complexities, attempts to classify college athletes as employees or to organize them for union purposes have stalled. 
 
The dam broke in 2021, when the NCAA for the first time ruled that college athletes would now be able to earn money from use of their Name, Image and Likeness (“NIL”).  Very little guidance was provided.  Athletes, universities, attorneys and agents are trying to make sense of the NIL landscape, but only have limited guidance from the NCAA and the laws governing NIL (to the extent that they exist) which vary by state.  Our panel of experts will discuss how NIL presently works, how it is expected to evolve, and what it means for the effort to classify athletes as employees.
 

Introduction:

  • Adrienne Eaton – Dean, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations

 

Meet our panelists:

  • Jason Belzer, CEO and Co-Founder – Student Athlete NIL (SANIL)
  • Randi Larson,  Asst. Director, Academic Services for Student Athletes – Rutgers University
  • Jeffrey Poulard, Assistant Athletic Director of Compliance & DEI – Rutgers University

 

Moderator:

  • Jonathan F. Cohen, Esq.  – Plosia & Cohen Law Firm

 

Program Coordinators

  • William Dwyer, Assistant Teaching Professor – Rutgers SMLR
  • James Cooney, Associate Teaching Professor – Rutgers SMLR


Join us for dinner:        

Location:  RUTGERS CLUB
                 85 Avenue E, 2nd Floor  Piscataway, NJ  08854

Date:       Friday, December 2, 2022
Time:       5:00 P.M. Registration
                5.30 P.M. Buffet Dinner
                6:15 P.M. – 7:50 P.M. Program

Discounted rate for members.  You must log in to get the member discount.  Or join NJ LERA for the 2022-23 year.

Registrants will receive an email with the Rutgers Club parking registration link for the two parking lots reserved for our Program.  

When
December 2nd, 2022 from  5:30 PM to  7:50 PM
Location
85 AVENUE E
# 2
PISCATAWAY, NJ 08854-8040
United States
Event Fee(s)
Event Price
Member $55.00
Non-member $65.00