Tinkering with Success: College Athletes, Social Media and the First Amendment

Authors

Meg Penrose, Texas A&M University School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-2014

Journal Title

Pace Law Review

ISSN

0272-2410

Abstract

Good law does not always make good policy. This article seeks to provide a legal assessment, not a policy directive. The policy choices made by individual institutions and athletic departments should be guided by law, but absolutely left to institutional discretion. Many articles written on college student-athletes' social media usage attempt to urge policy directives clothed in constitutional analysis.

In this author's opinion, these articles have lost perspective-constitutional perspective. This article seeks primarily to provide a legal and constitutional assessment so that schools and their athletic departments will have ample information to then make their own policy choices.

First Page

30

Last Page

71

Num Pages

41

Volume Number

35

Issue Number

1

Publisher

Pace University School of Law

Recommended Citation

Meg Penrose, Tinkering with Success: College Athletes, Social Media and the First Amendment, 35 Pace L. Rev. 30 (2014).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/715