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MBA in International Sports Law

MBA in International Sports Law

MBA in International Sports Law
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MBA in International Sports Law

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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.

Overview

Overview

  • 3 campus sessions in Geneva, Switzerland
  • Online Lectures on SSBM’s top-notch platform
  • 38 Courses
  • Personal Advisor
  • SSBM Connect
  • 60 ECTS Credits
  • Taught in English
  • Blended format
  • Tuition fees: 15.000 EUR
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SSBM Geneva
Geneva Business Center
Avenue des Morgines 12
1213 Genève
Switzerland

+41 22 508 77 96

contact@ssbm.ch

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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.

   

Efraim Barak & Petra Pocrnic PericaAcademic Directors

Sports Law Expertise

In-depth knowledge on latest sports law topics.

Knowledge

You will get a holistic and strategic understanding of sports law.

Flexibility

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:

  • Conduct professional competency building activities
  • Acquire sports law knowledge and expertise
  • Develop real-life problem solving abilities in the sports context
  • Provide practical orientation to sports law
  • Get a holistic and strategic understanding of sports law
  • Implement innovative and creative solutions to sports law
  • See different factes of sports law in action
  • Acquire an advanced understanding of sports law
  • Giving you the opportunity to know colleagues from other countries and establish a strong and extensive network that will escort you for many years ahead in your professional activities

Career opportunities

  • Law firms, audits and Big Four
  • National or international sports intermediary
  • Representative Agencies
  • Private and public federations and institutions
  • National or international sports entities
  • Sports Entertainment Industry
  • E-Sports and video games
  • Organization and management of sports events
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FLEXIBILITY

Live virtual classes, adapted to working hours combined with on site learning in Geneva, Switzerland. We use top-notch learning platform used by Harvard and MIT.

SUPPORT

You will be coached, mentored and fully supported by our academic directors.

Networking

Networking oppurtnities with fellow candidates, lecturers and current legal experts with experience in the top international sports law cases.

INTERNATIONAL TRIP

You will benefit from 2 on campus trips to Geneva, Switzerland.

KNOWLEDGE

You will learn from the best in the field and get access to important knowledge base through our international renowned lecturers.

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

You will learn through reflection on doing by working on real cases in the sports law.

Curriculum

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

Program Schedule

Campus lectures 1: Geneva, Switzerland

Campus lectures #1: Geneva, Switzerland

 

DATE WEEK TOPIC PROFESSOR
12.10.23 1 General Introduction to Sports Law – Full day Efraim Barak
13.10.23 1 Mediation and other alternative dispute resolution methods in International Sport Disputes – Full day Prof. Moti Mironi
14.10.23 1 Swiss Law – Basic Principles, Sport Organizations as Swiss associations, PILA, Swiss Federal Tribunal Jurisprudence (with special focus on decisions regarding sport arbitrations) – Half a Day Claude Ramoni
14.10.23 1 Special issues related to CAS Proceedings – CAS Jurisdiction,
Standing to Appeal, Evidential matters & the Burden of proof – Rules, Practical Issues and Jurisprudence – Half day
Prof. Ulrich Haas
14.10.23 1 Sport Law – In between Private law & Public Law – Half a Day Petra Pocrnic Perica

Online lectures 1

DATE WEEK TOPIC PROFESSOR
16.10.2023 2 Internationalization of Sport (part 1) Gianpaolo Monteneri
23.10.2023 3 Internationalization of Sport (part 2) Gianpaolo Monteneri
30.10.2023 4 Jurisdiction & Conflict of Jurisdictions in Sports Disputes (part 1) Prof. Michael Geistlinger
06.11.2023 5 Jurisdiction & Conflict of Jurisdictions in Sports Disputes (part 2) Prof. Michael Geistlinger
13.11.2023 6 Sport Finance (part 1) Mark Hovell
20.11.2023 7 Sport Finance (part 2) Mark Hovell
27.11.2023 8 CAS- History, Structure, CAS Code and the handling of Proceedings Lucas Ferrer
04.12.2023 9 Disputes related to the Olympic Games – The CAS Ad Hoc Committees Efraim Barak
11.12.2023 10 CAS – Practicalities in handling the proceedings from a Party’ Counsel  Perspective (part 1)
Juan de Dios Crespo
18.12.2023 11 Advocacy Skills in CAS proceedings Manfred Nan
23.12.23-08.01.24   NEW YEAR & CHRISTMAS BREAK  
08.01.2024 12 Sport & Human Rights
Dr. Despina Mavromatti
15.01.2024 13 Employment/Labor Law in the framework of Sport (Employers perspective) Ricardo de Buen
22.01.2024 14 Employment/Labor Law in the framework of Sport (Employers perspective) Ricardo de Buen
29.01.2024 15 Intellectual Property: Part 1- Image rights Konstantinos Zemberis
05.02.2024 16 Intellectual Property: Part 2 – Broadcasting rights Konstantinos Zemberis
12.02.2024 17 WADA and the Anti-Doping System, Objectives, Structure, the WADA Code Operation Doping Control & Results Management  Petra Pocrnic Perica
19.02.2024 18 WADA and the Anti-Doping System, Objectives, Structure, the WADA Code Operation Doping Control & Results Management  Petra Pocrnic Perica
26.02.2024 19 WADA and the Anti-Doping System – an insight from the Athlete’s perspective & Interests Paul Greene
04.03.2024 20 FIFA – Structure, objectives & operation Paolo Lombardi

Campus lectures 2: Geneva, Switzerland

Campus lectures #2: Geneva, Switzerland

 

DATE WEEK TOPIC PROFESSOR
14.03.24 21 FIFA Disciplinary and Integrity – Half day Marc Cavaliero
14.03.24 21 The Dispute Resolution System inside the Structures of FIFA: competent bodies, operations and procedure, and practical references-Half Day Omar Ongaro
15.03.24 21 Structure and Functioning of UEFA and its relations with the EU  Angelo Rigopoulos
16.03.24 21 EU Law, Sport and the EU, Free movement of Players, Sport and Competition Law in EU level, The European Sport Policy – Full Day Prof. Michele Colucci

Online lectures 2

Online lectures #2

DATE WEEK TOPIC PROFESSOR
25.03.24 24 FIFPRO – Structure and activities Marc Cavaliero
29.03-.04-07.04 EASTER BREAK  
08.04.24 23 E-Sports David Felon
15.04.24 24 U.S. Professional Sports Leagues Kate Porter/Jeffrey
22.04.24 25 Sports Law in South America Ariel Reck
29.04.24 26 Basketball: FIBA – Structure, objectives & operation Jaime-Albizu Lamboy-
Riley
06.05.24 27 Euroleague Basketball: a Case Study of an Innovative European League Prof. Massimo Coccia & Francisco Larios
13.05.24 28 ECA, European Club Association – mission, Structure and main activities Mario Flores Chemor
20.05.24 29 Professional Football Leagues & the EL – Mission, Structure and main activities Benoît Pasquier
27.05.2430   Match Fixing Dennis Koolaard
03.06.24 31 Structure of a transfer of a football player: Practical issues (part 1) Gianpaolo Monteneri
10.06.24 32 Structure of a transfer of a football player: Practical issues (Part 2) Ettore Mazzilli
17.06.24 33 Agents Prof. Alberto Ruiz de
Aguiar
Diaz-Obregon

Campus lectures 3: Geneva, Switzerland

Campus lectures #3: Geneva, Switzerland

 

DATE WEEK TOPIC PROFESSOR

27.06.24

34 Transfer of a football player: A practical training session including negotiation and drafting of the relevant contracts – Full Day Daniel Muñoz
28.06.24 34 Visit to Lausanne (Full Day) Visit to Lausanne (Full Day)
29.06.24 34 Commercial Rights derived from Mahor Sports Competitions_Including the Olympic Games as a case study – Half a day Howard Stupp 
29.06.24 34

Special issues related to CAS Proceedings – CAS Jurisdiction, Standing to Appeal, Evidential matters & the Burden of proof – Rules, Practical Issues and Jurisprudence -Half day

Working on research and submission of the Master Thesis
Prof. Ulrich Haas

 

Overview of courses

  • Internationalization of Sport
  • Jurisdiction & Conflict of Jurisdictions in Sports Disputes
  • Sport and 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 issues related to the port industry: Image rights & 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
  • Structure and Functionaing 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 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 and the fight against this phenomenon
  • Structure of a transfer of a football player: Practical issues

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Who Are SSBM Students?
  • Diversity72 different countries and cultures represented
  • FlexibilityYou can start anytime from anywhere
  • EngagementOur top-notch learning approach will keep you engaged and motivated

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Curriculum

MBA in International Sports Law

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.

Tuition Fees

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. 

 

Admissions

  • Undergraduate degree (Bachelor) from a recognized university or equivalent
  • Grade transcripts
  • Your CV or resume
  • ID or passport copy
  • One photo
  • English requirements: If a candidate is not from a majority English-speaking country, then an evidence of English language competency is required.
    • TOEFL, IELTS or Cambridge
    • Intensive English Program certificate
    • Previous education in English speaking or Bilingual school with an official certificate
    • Test/Interview with SSBM member staff (75 EUR cost which will be deducted from tuition fees upon enrollment)

Curriculum

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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Networking is one of our core strategic directions.

SSBM has signed a strategic partnership with MBA Alumni clubs enabling SSBM MBA students to become members of the MBA Alumni Club. This will provide our MBA students with new networking opportunities to connect with peers from the same, but also different industries. Having a diverse student body is one of SSBM’s main objectives.

 

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