Description
With specific reference to the role of the sports manager, this course provides an extensive overview of legal principles and ethical issues in domestic and international sports. The course reviews the legal and regularity aspects, elements, and relationships for all constituents participating in sports: administrators, coaches, athletes, agents, vendors, sponsors, facility managers and owners, and spectators. The course identifies the different fields of law and a survey of the broader issues related to sports law (such as antitrust exemption, labor law, and the athlete/agent relationship), before turning to consider the legal issues routinely faced by sports managers (such as the legal aspects of risk management). Seminal court cases are discussed. Students will examine the inextricable links between the law and business ethics and the application of ethics in the decision-making process. (Junior or Senior Standing)