Bachelor 2024/2025

International Sports Law and Arbitration

Type: Elective course (Law)

Area of studies: Law

Delivered by: School of International Law

Where: Faculty of Law

When: 4 year, 4 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 40

Course Syllabus

Abstract

During this course students will study the concept, subject, history, sources, subjects, special principles of international sports law and the peculiarities of sports arbitrage. The discipline covers the process of regulation of international sports relations at the universal level within the framework of the United Nations, its specialized agencies and programs, at the regional level within the framework of the Council of Europe and the European Union, at the bilateral level, as well as within the framework of the organizations of the Olympic and Paralympic Movement. The course examines the activities of the International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and identifies problem areas: doping in sport, fan violence and hooliganism, environmental protection in the organization of international sport competitions, economic crime and discrimination in international sport, protection of television and radio broadcasting rights in international sport competitions, use of Olympic symbols, countering threats to health and safety, and the use of the Olympic logo.