An Antitrust Expert Makes The Comprehensive Case Against The Protect College Sports Act

Marc Edelman has spent much of the last two decades fighting to help college athletes get fairly compensated for their labor. A lawyer who is currently a tenured professor at Baruch College, Edelman has been writing about the NCAA's violations of antitrust law since 2002. In 2023, he advised both the states of Ohio and New York in their antitrust cases against the NCAA. As an antitrust expert who has dedicated so much time to thinking about college sports and how athletes should be properly compensated, I figured Edelman would be the perfect guy to talk to about the Protect College Sports Act, which was recently passed by the Senate and is expected to be voted on in the House after the midterm elections. Our conversation, which has been edited and condensed for clarity, is below.

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