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Sport and the Law - LAWS1812
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Faculty: Faculty of Law
 
 
School:  Faculty of Law
 
 
Course Outline: See below
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 8
 
 
EFTSL: 0.16667 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: LAWS1001, LAWS1011; or LAWS1610; Corequisite: LAWS2311 or LAWS1010.
 
 
Fee Band: 3 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

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.


Recommended Prior Knowledge

None

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%
Debate 5%
Plea in mitigation 5%
Class participation 10%
Research essay (3,000 words) 50%
 

Course Texts

Prescribed

  • 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
  • Study Kit (3 volumes)

Recommended
Refer to Course Outline provided by lecturer.

Resources

Refer to Course Outline provided by lecturer.

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