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Special Interest Project - LAW496
The topics that make up this course are areas that are commonly encountered by sports lawyers, managers, agents, administrators and athletes in sport. They include organisational structure of sporting groups, sporting contracts; intellectual property rights in sport, competition law in sport, specialised sporting tribunals; doping law and policy, discrimination in sport and behavioural misconduct in sport.
Sport is widely recognised as being a significant activity and industry in Australia. With the commercialisation of sport, the law has become more prevalent over time and advances have led to the emergence of sports law. Sports law includes areas and topics such as sporting contracts, governance in sport, sports agents, athlete’s rights and protection, drugs in sport, sporting tribunals and sporting discrimination.
| Credit Points: | 3 |
| When Offered: | S3 Block - Session 3, December 2016 - February 2017, Block, classes are held in an intensive mode over a sequence of days S3 External - Session 3, December 2016 - February 2017, External (On-campus dates: Compulsory) |
| Staff Contact(s): | Mr Timothy Fuller |
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24cp in LAW or LAWS units and permission of Executive Dean of Faculty |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Macquarie Law School Faculty of Arts |
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