Navigating the Intersection of NIL and Title IX

By Alonzo L. Llorens and Shayla J. Wright, of Parker Poe Since 2021 student-athletes profiting from their name, image, and likeness (NIL), one of the clearest areas of risk has become the intersection of NIL and Title IX of federal civil rights law. While the NIL landscape remains an ever-evolving metamorphosis of all sorts of rules from all sorts of directions, including the NCAA’s most recent clarification of its own NIL rules, universities must continue to meet Title IX’s requirement o