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Global Master in International Sports Law

Program director:

Dev Kumar Parmar

Campus:

Online

Date:

October

LANGUAGE:

Inglés

Students of the Global Master in International Sports Law at ISDE

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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Bayern de Múnich​​
NBA
New York Red Bulls
Comité Olímpico Internacional
Tribunal de Arbitraje Deportivo
Asian Football Confederation
Agencia Mundial Antidopaje
Excel Sports Management
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Correia, Seara, Caldas, Simões e Associados
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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.

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

LUIS FERNANDO PAMPLONA NOVAES Partner Nemetz & Kuhnen Advocacia
RICARDO OLIVERAS Partner at ECIJA
DAVID CASSERLY Partner Kellerhals-Carrard
DEV KUMAR PARMAR Founder of Parmars – Sport
DONALD RUKARE Commonwealth Games Federantion
FRANCESCO MACRI CAS arbitrator
DANIEL CRAVO Partner Cravo,  Pastl e Balbuena Advogados Associados
MARCELO FRANKLIN Founder Franklin Advogados
MATTHEW KAISER Global Sports Advocates
PEDRO GARCIA CORREIA CSA Advocacia
NAN SATO Managing Partner at Fisher Phillips
FILIPE ORSOLINI Founder at FSZ Advogados
DAAN DE JONG General Counce FC Utrecht
MARC CAVALIERO Founding Partner of Cavaliero-associates
CAROL COUSE FIFA Mediator
GABRIEL LIMA Founding Partner of Lima Advocacia

*El claustro está sujeto a modificaciones

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.

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  • The Global Master in International Sports Law at ISDE is for you if you work full-time and want to specialise in sports law and management without leaving your job. Its students come from Law, Business Administration and Economics, and are looking for practical knowledge and a professional network in the industry.

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