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

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.

authors

• Penrose, Meg

published proceedings

• Pace law review

author list (cited authors)

• Penrose, M

complete list of authors

• Penrose, Meg

publication date

• October 2014

publisher

• Pace University School of Law  Publisher

published in

• Pace law review  Journal

keywords

• Constitutional Law
• Education Law
• Entertainment, Arts, And Sports Law
• First Amendment
• Internet Law

URI

• https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/715

start page

• 30

end page

• 71

volume

• 35

issue

• 1

URL

• https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/715/