- Phone:
- (812) 855-6594
- Email:
- jaymeyer@iu.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
- B.S., (with high distinction), School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
Courses
- Sports Law and Public Policy (O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs)
- The Law of Sports (Maurer School of Law)
Biography
Since Spring 2015, Meyer has taught Sports Law and Public Policy at O’Neill and beginning in 2025 also teaches Sports Law at IU Maurer.
In addition to teaching at IU, Meyer consults with sports organizations at all levels of participation and governmental officials at the state and federal level on matters impacting college athletes. She is a frequent speaker, panelist and moderator at professional organization meetings, sports law conferences, business and law schools and Congressional gatherings. Meyer has published in scholarly journals on Title IX, amateurism, and ethical issues in sports. She advocates the power of sport to bring about social change. Her focus is on achieving gender equality, 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 successfully 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 represented Fortune 50 clients on antitrust and sports issues throughout the U.S., including briefing in the U.S. Supreme Court. She also focused on pro bono clients with matters involving gender, sports and education. He pro bono practice was 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 also has the privilege of serving as an advisor to the Women’s Sports Network, the Concussion Legacy Foundation, the Marvella Project and FAIR Sports. 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 and the Distinguished Alumni Service Award from IU in 2023
Highlights
- Member, Board of Directors, Sports Lawyers Association (Chair, Time for IX Initiative, Executive Committee)
- Emeritus Member, Board of Directors, National Women's Law Center (Co-Chair, Development Committee)
- Emeritus Member, Board of Trustees, Women's Sports Foundation (Chair, Advocacy Committee); Current Member of Advocacy Committee and Sub-committee on College Sports
- Advisory Council, Concussion Legacy Foundation
- Advisor, the Women’s Sports Network
- Advisor, FAIR Sports
- Member, IU Kelley, Sports Industry Workshop Advisory Board
- Former Member, Advisory Board, Urban Assembly Girls School for Criminal Justice
- New York Super Lawyer: Antitrust and Women Lawyers
- Distinguished Alumni Service Award, Indiana University (2022)
- Distinguished Alumni Award, O'Neill SPEA, Indiana University (2014)
- Recipient of Indiana University Bicentennial Medal (2020)
- Chair, Dean’s Council, O'Neill SPEA, Indiana University (2019-present)
- Licensed to practice law in New York, California, and D.C.
Selected Works
- “Title IX’s Substantial Proportionality Test: Old Challenges and New Debates in Assessing Whether a School Provides Equal Opportunity to Participate in Sports”, 33 Marq. Sports Law Rev. 83 (2022
- “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)