Sport and the Law - JURD7516
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Kensington Campus
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
Enrolment Requirements:
Pre-requisite: 36 UOC of JURD courses for students enrolled prior to 2013. For students enrolled after 2013, pre-requisite: 72 UOC of JURD courses.
Excluded: LAWS3812
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Recommended Prior Knowledge
Course Objectives
- To draw upon specific issues from various branches of the law and to place them in an historical and modern day context in relation to the world of sport
- To give students an understanding of the developing role the law is making in the world of sport
- To consider the policy and ethical issues facing those involved in the regulation of modern sport
- To have students engaged in practical and scholarly research
- To develop effective oral and written communication skills in students both generally and in specific legal settings related to the world of sport
Main Topics
- What is sport and when should the law intervene?
- The Australian legal system and the development of a "Law of Sport"
- Clubs, crowds, ideology, gender and race
- Who owns the game?
- The business: general protection issues
- The individuals: restraint of trade; before the mercy of the court – preparing the plea
- Liability and protection issues: defamation, discrimination and drugs
- The international arena: national identity; the future
- Theory in action
Assessment
| Seminar presentation | 30% (allocated during the course) |
| Debate | 10% ((allocated during the course) |
| Plea in mitigation | 10% (last day of the course) |
| Class participation | 10% (awarded after the end of the course) |
| Research essay | 40% (due 10.00am Tuesday 23 December |
Course Texts
Prescribed
- T.V. Hickie, A.T. Hughes, D. Healey and J.A. Scutt (eds), Essays in Sport and the Law, ASSH, Melbourne, 2008. (Available from your lecturer, or order online from www.sporthistory.org/orderform.html
- Readings - Study Kit: A Study Kit of readings for the course (in three volumes) will be available for purchase from the UNSW Bookshop.
Supplementary Texts
Supplementary Texts in Law Reserve (UNSW Law Library):
R. Cashman, Paradise of Sport: The Rise of Organised Sport in Australia OUP, Melbourne, 1995. Reprinted 1998, 2000 (Walla Walla Press). ISBN 0 19 553298 8
D. Healey, Sport and the Law, 3rd edn, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2005
G.M. Kelly, Sport and the Law, Law Book Company, Sydney, 1987. Call no: L/KN186.6/k1/1 (Although somewhat dated, this should assist as a starting point for many of the topics.)
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