- Phone:
- (812) 855-6594
- Email:
- jaymeyer@indiana.edu
- Areas of Interest:
- Title IX
- Antitrust
- Intercollegiate Sports law
- Names, Images, and Likenesses in Sports
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Education
- J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1978
- B.S., (with high distinction), School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, 1975
Courses
- Sports Law and Public Policy
Biography
At Indiana University, since 2015 Meyer has taught sports law and public policy, consults on matters impacting college athletes, and lectures on Title IX, amateurism, and ethical issues in sports. Meyer advocates the power of sport to bring about social change. Her focus is on achieving gender equality, diversity, inclusion, safety, and integrity in sports through education, activism, and litigation.
Meyer began her legal career as an attorney in the Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission, in Washington, D.C. She moved to private practice in 1981, joining Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York City. Meyer established Simpson Thacher's Los Angeles office in 1995 and returned to the New York office in the fall of 1998. At Simpson Thacher, Meyer has represented clients on antitrust and sports issues throughout the U.S. including briefing in the U.S. Supreme Court. Currently she focuses on pro bono clients with matters involving gender, sports and education. She is most actively engaged in Title IX athletics litigation on behalf of high school girls.
Meyer has been active on a variety of non-profit boards seeking gender equity and fairness in sports, including the Sports Lawyers Association, National Women's Law Center and the Women's Sports Foundation. Meyer is a member of numerous antitrust and sports committees at the city, state, and federal levels. She also serves on sports advocacy committees for several non-profit organizations. She has been named multiple times a New York Super Lawyer in the categories of Antitrust and Top Women Lawyers and received the Distinguished Alumni Award from O'Neill in 2014.
Highlights
- Member, Board of Directors, Sports Lawyers Association (Chair, Time for IX Committee)
- Member, Board of Directors, National Women's Law Center (Co-Chair, Development Committee)
- Member, Board of Trustees, Women's Sports Foundation (Chair, Advocacy Committee)
- Advisory Council, Concussion Legacy Foundation
- Former Member, Board of Directors, Reproductive Health Access Project
- Former Member, Advisory Board, Urban Assembly Girls School for Criminal Justice
- New York Super Lawyer: Antitrust and Women Lawyers
- Distinguished Alumni Award, O'Neill SPEA, Indiana University (2014)
- Chair, Dean’s Council, O'Neill SPEA, Indiana University
- Licensed to practice law in New York, California, and D.C.
In the News
- "2016’s Best Sports Cities - Ask the Experts" - WalletHub, December 1, 2016
Selected Works
- A Win Win: College Athletes Get Paid for Their Names, Images, & Likenesses and Colleges Maintain the Primacy of Academics, 11 Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law 247 (2020) (republished in Whither College Sports (ed. Andrew Zimbalist) (2021)
- “It’s on the NCAA: A Playbook for Eliminating Sexual Assault,” Syracuse Law Review, Vol. 67 (2017)
- “Reforming College Sports: The Case for a Limited and Conditional Antitrust Exemption for the NCAA,"(with A. Zimbalist), Antitrust Bulletin, (2017)
- “Vertical Restraints,” California Bar Antitrust and Unfair Competition (4th ed. 2008) and (5th ed. 2011).
- "Relaxation of the Per Se Mantra in the Vertical Price Fixing Arena," 68 S. CAL. L. REV. 73 (1994), also republished in part in An Antitrust Anthology, (ed. Andrew I. Gavil) (1996)
