Professor Michael LeRoy will present his paper, “Are the Big Ten and SEC Monopoly PROs? Publicity Rights Organizations and New NIL Antitrust Questions,” to a symposium on Friday, February 27 for Seton Hall Law Review. His research shows that the Big Ten and SEC NIL form contracts pose new antitrust concerns for athletes. He develops an antitrust blueprint to protect college athletes from horizontal price fixing (royalty payments for use of NIL are set at $0); misappropriation, misrepresentation, and falsification of their NIL under the Lanham Act; illegal antitrust immunity; and unjust enrichment.
