Chris Sagers, the James A. Thomas Professor of Law, participated this week in a prominent speaker series of the US Justice Department’s Antitrust Division. Sagers, along with Mike Carrier of Rutgers Law School, discussed NCAA v. Alston, the Supreme Court’s landmark decision that the NCAA’s college athletics amateurism rules violated antitrust law. The speaker series is a private program in which leading antitrust experts brief the Department’s lawyers and economists on developments in the law.

Last year Sagers submitted a brief before the Court in the case and published about it in the George Mason Law Review, both with co-author Carrier.