University of Technology SydneyHandbook 2007

76002 Sports Law

6cp

Requisite(s): 60 credit points of completed study in C04148 Master of Law and Legal Practice AND 70211 Law of Contract AND 70311 Law of Torts

These requisites may not apply to students in certain courses.

There are also course requisites for this subject. See access conditions.


Undergraduate and Postgraduate
Subject coordinator: D Thorpe

Sport is a prominent feature of our national culture. In the past, law seemed to have little to do with sport, however, with the growth of sporting professionalism, the internationalisation of sport, media influences, sporting sponsorship and high-profile sporting cases, no longer can sport claim to be quarantined from the impact of the law.

In this subject students examine, to varying depths, such broad topics as drugs in sport, crime and personal injury in sport, the sporting contract, marketing and sponsorship, employment and industrial relations, discrimination in sport, dispute settlement and sporting tribunals, insurance and risk management, sport and taxation, anti-competitive practices in sport, and business and organisational structures in sport.

Any sporting event may potentially generate a number of legal concerns, including: what rights of appeal exist for non-selected athletes, to whom might a team doctor owe a duty of care, whether athletes are illegally exploited by major sporting organisations, when a player might be criminally charged for violent acts in the field of play, the legal status of sporting disciplinary tribunals, how a sporting organisation might deal with claims of discrimination (for example, on the basis of pregnancy), whether coaches and clubs are legally liable for the actions of their athletes, whether it is legal to exclude an athlete or member of the public from a sporting venue, and when a referee might be legally liable in tort.

We consider the law as it relates to sport in Australia and several areas of international interest.

Fee information

2007 contribution for post-2004 Commonwealth-supported students: $1,041.62
2007 amount for undergraduate domestic fee-paying students: $2,472.00
Subject EFTSL: 0.125
Note: The above fees are applicable in 2007 for Commonwealth-supported students who commenced after 2004 and domestic fee-paying undergraduate students only. Pre-2005 Commonwealth-supported students should consult the Student contribution charges for Commonwealth supported students webpage.
Not all students are eligible for Commonwealth supported places, and not all subjects are available to Commonwealth supported students. Domestic fee-paying students and international students should refer to the Fees webpage.

Access conditions

Note: The requisite information presented in this subject description covers only academic requisites. Full details of all enforced rules, covering both academic and admission requisites, are available at Access conditions and My Student Admin.