Sports Law & Arbitration
About This Course
At the end of the course, participants would be able to:
1. Demonstrate awareness and understanding of the way in which sports law has evolved on an international scale, and on national scale in several jurisdictions;
2. Understand, compare and contrast the underlying objectives and principles of sports law including the ways in which the law seeks to balance the competing rights and interests of different stakeholders such as athletes, sports governing bodies, regulatory bodies (eg WADA), and sponsorship or media companies involved in sport;
3. Be familiar with and apply the principles of sports law developed by sports governing bodies, and sports law jurisprudence developed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (the CAS) and other sports arbitral bodies in key sports law areas including anti-doping law, match-fixing, athlete selection and nomination appeals, discrimination law, and football-related disputes;
4. Be familiar with emerging developments and possible future directions of sports law.
What You'll Learn
Sports� Law� is� a� very� broad� field,� encompassing� several areas� of� law� unique� to� the� sporting� industry,� as� well� as several traditional areas of law applied to the field of sport.This course will focus on the existing and evolving private and� public� international� sports� law� systems,� (where appropriate) the national sports law of several jurisdictions (including� Australia,� USA,� UK� and� to� a� lesser� extent, Singapore)� and� provide� avenues� of� multi-jurisdictional comparative analysis. The social, political, commercial and economic� influences� on� the� development,� content� and structure of sports law globally will also be explored.
Entry Requirements
A good Bachelor's or Juris Doctor degree in Law