Panelists explore how rights of free speech operate in the context of intercollegiate athletics including speech used abusively by athletes, athletes protesting abuse by coaches, trainers or other university staff, athletes engaging in political protest, coaches’ efforts to control athletes’ use of social media and commercial speech that is invoked in the context of NIL licensing.
PANELISTS: SANDY THATCHER (Moderator), former director of Penn State University Press, member of the board of directors of the Copyright Clearance Center for 25 years; SAM C. ERHLICH, J.D., Ph.G., Assistant Professor of legal studies, Department of Management , Boise State University; KAIYA McCULLOUGH, activit, former UCLA soccer player, one of the first collegiate athletes to kneel in protest of the National Anthem, Chair, Anti-Racist Soccer Club; FRANK LoMONTE, J.D., Director of the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida; JOSEPHINE R. POTUTO, J.D. Richard Larson Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Nebraska College of Law, UN-Lincoln NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative.
