Sport, Law and International Diplomacy - LAWS3352

Description

Recommended Prior Knowledge

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the political nature of sport
• Develop an understanding of international systems of sports governance
• Develop a basic understanding of international law in relation to sport
• Understand the historical development of sport as a tool in international diplomacy and international relations
• Understand the role of sport and sport law in various international movements such as the battle against Apartheid in South Africa; the debate in the USA whether to boycott the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games; the almost global boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics and more recently the international battle over doping in sport - among many others.
• Understand sport and Human Rights
• Understand sport as development aid
• Appreciate the role of sport more generally in international diplomacy and the various laws and treaties that come into play.
• Understand the role of law in protecting sports intellectual property including international treaties dealing with this issue

Main Topics

• The genesis of international sporting organisations and the development of the governance of international sport
• The idea of an international law of sport
• The appropriation of sport by totalitarian regimes in the inter-war years (1918-1939).
• The debate in the USA and elsewhere to boycott the 1936 Berlin Olympics
• Sport and geopolitics in the Cold War era, includes dealing with the problem of the Two
• Chinas, Two Germanies, Two Koreas, Palestine/Israel and others)
• Terrorism and sport
• The boycott era of the 1970s and 1980s
• The Gleneagles Agreement and the battle against Apartheid in South Africa
• Sport as development aid
• The issue of sweatshop labor being used to produce sporting goods
• Human rights and anti-discrimination provisions in international treaties and how sporting organisations deal with them
• International treaties and the protection of sporting intellectual property
• International law and the politics of doping in sport
• The Court of Arbitration for Sport
• International environmental law and sport
• Recent Olympic Games such as the Beijing Olympic Games, Geopolitics, Law and International Diplomacy

Assessment

• Class Participation - 10%
• Class Presentation (oral) - 20%
• Research Essay (2000 words) - 40%
• Debate- 10%
• Documentary Analysis (800-1000 words) - 20%

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