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The MBA in International Sports Law is designed with the objective to provide you with the latest and most updated knowledge and expertise of both the academic and practical insights of the unique and fascinating field of Law applied to the Sports industry and the Sports Activity. The program is aimed at students, graduated in law or in other relevant academic fields, as well as already experienced lawyers looking to boost their legal career in the sports sector.
The program is designed and directed by leading experts in Sports Law and the faculty consist of over 30 international renowned experienced legal experts and will provide you with extensive and a wide range of knowledge on the sports law with the aim to equip you with the needed professional tools to either start or improve your career as a sport lawyer.
The program follows blended learning, combination of campus and online methods with 3 key sessions taking place in Geneva, Switzerland.
With the wide sense of sporting rules and dispute resolution jurisprudence, as well as the intradisciplinary topics of sport governance and sport finance being its vital part, we believe that the Sports Law is a never stopping game. The very fact that you are learning it makes you one of its players and by completing this program you will be perfectly equipped with the best gear for immediately enter the field (or the pitch) of the Sports Law game!
Key program strengths:
1. Rex Sport Academy as the proved expert in Sports Law education + SSBM guaranteeing Swiss quality in education
2. Combination of on-line and on-site – time management + networking
3. Combination of academic knowledge and experience transferred from the best industry practitioners
The program focuses on several key areas:
GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF SPORTS LAW
UNDERSTANDING THE LEGAL SYSTEMS THAT ARE THE MOST RELEVANT TO SPORTS LAW
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC LEGAL FRAMEWORK REGULATING SPORT
INTERNALISATION OF SPORT
SPORTS LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
DOPING AND THE FIGHT AGAINST THIS PHENOMENOM
SPORT FINANCE
SPORTS ORGANISATIONS: FIFA, WADA, FIFPRO, UEFA, FIBA, ECA, ETC.
SPORT RELATED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ISSUES
DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN SPORT, BOTH IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVEL
CAS, INCLUDING ADVOCACY SKILLS AND SPECIFIC TOPICS RELATED TO HANDLING OF CAS PROCEEDINGS
The MBA graduate program is a blended (combination of online and campus based lectures), 9 months, 60 ECTS program, which will help you learn to analyze complex and multi-faceted Sports Law environments, and to develop advanced knowledge about Sports Law.
Overall, the MBA in International Sports Law is composed of 37 thematic courses that will be taught by experienced leading experts at the sports industry.
For the online learning system, we are using a platform used by Harvard and MIT.
The program offers in-depth courses on sports law disciplines where issues and challenges related to the sports law are present.
We look forward to welcome you personally and meeting every one of you and to wish you plenty of success in your entrance to the Sports Law arena, whatever position or function you are going to pursue later in your professional life.
The teaching faculty composed of international lawyers with an extensive experience in Sports Law.
In-depth knowledge on latest sports law topics.
You will get a holistic and strategic understanding of sports law.
Our programme fits with working professional busy schedule by providing flexible study structure.
Our MBA in International Sports Law will help you to develop your professional careers in the field of international sports law. Through our international faculty the program will furnish you with the needed professional tools and will advance your knowledge of sports law in all of its aspects, including the worldwide structure and organization of sports, the interaction between sports law and other fields of law, the rules and regulations governing the sport industry, the dispute resolution mechanisms in the international context and many others.
Overall this MBA program brings the following aspects to your career development:
Career opportunities
The entire program is designed with on-campus and online approach:
3 on campus sessions taking place in Geneva, Switzerland with 10 thematic courses
21 blended courses
The MBA in International Sports Law was designed in partnership with over 30 sports law professionals.
The MBA in International Sports Law program is offered in English, brings 60 ECTS credits, and is organized into 38 courses and seminars and final assessment. The degree is delivered by SSBM Geneva.
There are 2 intakes per year: February and September.
Earn your MBA degree in 9 months while continuing to work and building your on-the-job experience. The program follows Blended (combination of Online and on campus lectures) method.
The practical relevance and applicability of the curriculum are the focal points of this graduate program. The MBA program course contents cover a broad spectrum of relevant sports law topics, such as Sport Law & Human Rights, CAS – History, Structure, CAS Code and the handling of Proceedings – An Institutional Insight, Sport Finance, Intellectual Property, WADA, FIFA – Structure, objectives & operation, Commercial Rights , Mediation, etc.
During your studies, you will gain access to productive practice-based projects and learn how to apply the curriculum directly to real life situations.
All of the lectures follow high standards and are delivered by our international renowned lecturers. Our professors will keep you engaged, motivated and will provide high quality teaching experience in order to leverage your professional development and advance your career.
Student achievement key metrics can be found here.
MBA in International Sports Law
Tuition fees: 15.000 EUR*
We offer various scholarship opportunities. We invite you to carefully check which one can apply to you.
* This price includes all program related costs. Additional costs may apply in some circumstances.
The International Master of Sports Law curriculum is composed of 38 courses .
The program curriculum is the following one:
General Introduction to Sports Law
EU Law – Basic principles and contact points with Sport Law ; Sport and the EU, Free movement of Players, Sport and Competition Law in the EU, The European Sport Policy
Swiss Law – General Principles, Sport Organizations as Swiss associations, PILA, Swiss Federal Tribunal Jurisprudence (with special focus on decisions regarding sport arbitrations)
Sport Law – In between Private law & Public Law
Internationalization of Sport
Jurisdiction & Conflict of Jurisdictions in Sports Disputes
Sport Law & Human Rights
CAS – History, Structure, CAS Code and the handling of Proceedings – An Institutional Insight
CAS – Practicalities in handling the proceedings from a Party’ Counsel Perspective
Advocacy Skills in CAS proceedings
Sport Finance
Employment/Labor Law in the framework of Sport (Employers & Employees perspective)
Intellectual Property: Image rights
Intellectual Property: Broadcasting rights
WADA, and the Anti-Doping System, Objectives, Structure, Operation, the WADA Code, Doping Control & Results Management
WADA and the Anti-doping system; an insight from the Athlete’s perspective & Interests
FIFA, Structure, objectives & operation
FIFPRO, Structure, Objectives & activities
FIFA, Disciplinary and Integrity
Mediation and other alternative dispute resolution methods in International Sport Disputes
Commercial Rights Derived from Major Sports Competitions – Including the Olympic Games as a case study
Structure and Functioning of UEFA and its relations with the EU
U.S. Professional Sports Leagues
Sports Law in South & Latin America
Basketball: FIBA, Structure, objectives & operation
Basketball: Euroleague – A Case Study of an Innovative European League
ECA, European Club Association: mission, structure and main activities
Professional Football Leagues & the EL; Mission, structure and main activities
Match Fixing
Structure of a transfer of a football player: Practical issues
Special issues related to CAS Proceedings – CAS Jurisdiction, Standing to Appeal, Evidential matters & the Burden of proof – Rules, Practical Issues and Jurisprudence
Disputes related to the Olympic Games-The CAS Ad Hoc Committees, structure and functioning
Transfer of a football player: A practical training session, practicing negotiations and drafting of the relevant contracts
* final list of available courses is subject to change
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