Global Master in International Sports Law
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Online
Date:
October 2026
LANGUAGE:
English
Law and sports meet in your next professional victory.
The Global Master’s Degree in International Sports Law at ISDE offers specialized and advanced training designed for professionals seeking to master the legal framework governing sports at an international level, combining academic rigor with a practical, applied perspective. With a focus on the realities of the sector, this program enables you to acquire up-to-date knowledge in sports law and sports management while developing strategic skills to tackle the legal challenges of a globalized and constantly evolving market.
Taught by top-level experts in the world of sports, this master’s program allows you to address key topics—from international arbitration and sports governing body regulations to conflict management and compliance issues in clubs and federations—all within a learning environment designed to accommodate your professional activity. With this preparation, you will advance confidently toward an international career in sports law, supported by a strong professional network within a dynamic and expanding industry.
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Introduction and objectives
The Global Master in International Sports Law is aimed and focused for professionals that are not able to attend a full time, one-year long program. Students of this Master come from Law, Business Administration, and Economics backgrounds, who want to acquire practical and work oriented knowledge in the field of International Sports Law and Sport Management.
ISDE’s philosophy is not only to acquire the most up to date knowledge on Sports Law, but also to acquire the skills that will help them to reach their professional goals, as well as a professional network within the industry.
To do so, our faculty is composed of the most relevant lecturers in the Sports Law and Management sector. Their commitment in making this program the best online master in sports law and management is the guarantee of its unparalleled excellence.
Due to the fact that many students in this program are with full-time activities, the training will be conducted online. However, within the term of the program, three encounters will take place in Madrid for a period lasting three days during weekends.
Online learning can provide learning outcomes that are comparable or even superior to those of conventional educational formats, as it is proved that on executive programs the students, which already have professional experience, work better when self-directed, as they are shaped by the accumulation of authentic personal experiences. Given their goal-oriented approach to learning and an ever more crowded personal calendar, a self-paced asynchronous design has proven to be a most effective instructional approach for online course formats.
This means that given the right tools and with the teachers playing a key role, the online methodology complemented by the encounters taking place in Madrid will produce the perfect combination to provide the students with the knowledge and skills they aimed to reach when they joined the Master.
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Structure, location and calendar
Face-to-face meetings take place at ISDE Madrid, calle Serrano 208.
Duration: 1 academic course starting in October and ending in July.
Career Opportunities
- National or international sports intermediary
- Representative Agencies
- Law firms, audits and Big Four
- 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
ACADEMIC PROGRAM
Choice of regulations. Regulatory conflict in sport-related disputes and procedures
- International law
- Regulation of international organizations
- Law of the seat of arbitration or court
- Choice of law by the parties
- Restrictions on the choice of law due to public law principles, etc.
Swiss private international law
- Special attention to international arbitration (chapter 17 of the Swiss Civil Code)
The fight against doping. Special attention to the legitimacy of the Code of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
- History
- Creation of WADA
- Objectives of the WADA Code
- Doping procedures in various sports organizations
- The WADA Code in accordance with the principles of criminal and disciplinary law
- Human rights and international conventions or directives relating to human rights
Conflict of Jurisdiction in Sports Disputes
- Relationship between the procedures carried out before international courts and the internal judicial bodies of sports organizations
Internationalisation of sport
- Special attention is given to the relations between sports organisations, which are mostly European entities subject to European Union law but which carry out sports activities worldwide that are not only subject to European Union law and principles
Sports law in the United States
- The structure of sports organizations in the United States and their relationship to international sports organizations.
- Special attention to the different visions and attitudes regarding the structure of sports activities, international transfers, special regulations, special characteristics in the laws of the game, etc.
Sport and European Union law
- The impact and influence of European Union law on international sports issues
Sport financing
- Different attitudes towards the financing of sports activities
- Private ownership as opposed to public ownership
- Coexistence of the two regulatory systems relating to sports financing, etc.
CAS / TAS
- History
- Functions, procedures and new developments
- Special attention to matters relevant to practising lawyers in CAS/TAS
Employment law in the context of sport
- Basic principles of labour relations and their coexistence with the regulation of sports organisations, sportsmen and women and employers
- The specificity of sport and its impact on the basic principles of labour relations
The definition of sport and the recognition of an activity as “sport”
- GAISF (General Association of International Sports Federations)
- The Olympic movement
- Special attention to those organizations and activities entitled to be considered as “sport” or “Olympic sport”
Lex sportive
- Is there?
- Is there still a real debate on this issue?
Esports and Virtual Reality in Sports
- Legal problems including image rights, privacy, health and torts, patent, product liability, licensing, crime, transparency and disclosure and addiction
- Conflicting interests: leagues, clubs, players, fans, sponsors, technology firms, broadcasters
* The program is subject to possible modifications by the ISDE academic team or the program management.
FACULTY
| Jeffrey Mishkin / USA | Partner Skadden Arps NYC |
| Alasdair Bell / Switzerland | Director of Legal Affairs at UEFA |
| Jane Purdon / UK | CEO Women in Football |
| Christophe Bertrand / France | Lawyer BERTRAND & Associé |
| David Casserly / UK and Switzerland | Barrister |
| Marc Cavaliero / Switzerland | Partner at Kleiner & Cavaliero |
| Daniel Cravo / Brazil | Partner at Cravo, Pastl, Balbuena |
| Spyros Arsenis / USA | Special Counsel Meister Seelig & Fein LLP |
| Nasr El Din Azzam / Egypt | Partner & Attorney at Law Sport Makers |
| Pedro García Correia / Portugal | Partner at CSA Law Firm |
| James Kitching / Australia | Managing Director at Kitching Sports |
| Maheta Molango / Spain | CEO at Real Mallorca and Advisory Board member at Baker & McKenzie |
| Brent John Nowicki / Switzerland | Managing Counsel Court of Arbitration for Sport |
| Emin Ozkurt / Turkey | CAS Arbitrator and Managing Partner of Oskurt & Ozkan & Hasbek Law Office |
| Vijay Parbat / UK | Legal Counsel Sports Law & Governance |
| Ashley Ehlert / Switzerland | Legal Director of International Ice Hockey Federation |
| Alejandra Gómez Bruinewoud / Uruguay | Senior Legal Counsel FIFPro |
| Sarah Ochwada / Kenya | Football Arbitrator and Founding Partner of KIKAO Law |
| Krystle Fonyonga / UK | Barrister |
| Ricardo Oliveras/ Spain | Corporate Partner and Head of Sports of Ecija Abogados |
*The faculty is subject to modifications.
ACCREDITED DEGREE
Once the relevant Program has concluded and ISDE has verified that the STUDENT has completed their work satisfactorily, the STUDENT will receive the corresponding Degree certificate for each PROGRAM.
In compliance with current legality and, specifically, as set forth in article 4.4 of decree 84/2004, it is noted that ISDE’s programs are professionally oriented and therefore, unless explicitly stated otherwise, they are courses that do not lead to the acquisition of a title with official value, but to that of a proprietary title from ISDE.