Course

Sport and the Law - JURD7516

Faculty: Faculty of Law

School: Faculty of Law

Course Outline: See below

Campus: Sydney

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

Sport is a central part of modern Australian society and culture. Not surprisingly, as professionalism has become the norm, those involved with sport, be they players, managers, administrators and/or supporters, are increasingly looking to the law to protect their rights and/or resolve their problems. How and why has this happened? The course touches on a number of different areas of law such as administrative law, business associations, contracts, criminal law, discrimination, industrial relations, taxation, trade practices and torts. The aim is to draw upon specific issues from these various branches of the law and to place them in an historical and modern day context so as to give participants an understanding of the developing role the law is making in the world of sport as well as the policy and ethical issues facing those involved.


Course Objectives

The key aims of the course are:
  • 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% (presented second Saturday of the course)
Class participation 10% (awarded after the end of the course)
Research essay 40% (due 9.00am Monday 22 December 2014 via turnitin and hard copy)
 

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