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.
Face-to-face meetings take place at ISDE Madrid, Calle Serrano 208.
Duration: 1 academic year starting in March and ending in December.
Choice of regulations. Regulatory conflict in sport-related disputes and procedures
Swiss private international law
Civil Code)
The fight against doping. Special attention to the legitimacy of the Code of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
Conflict of Jurisdiction in Sports Disputes
Internationalisation of sport
Sports law in the United States
Sport and European Union law
Sport financing
CAS / TAS
Employment law in the context of sport
The definition of sport and the recognition of an activity as “sport”
Lex sportive
Esports and Virtual Reality in Sports
* The program is subject to possible modifications by the ISDE academic team or the program management.
| 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.
Dr. Marc Lenz
DFL Head of Corporate Strategy; UEFA Club Licensing Committee
Fernando Delgado
Client Services Executive. Sponsorship Department at Real Madrid CF
Alvaro Manuel Gil Baquero
Lawyer at Atlético de Madrid
Íñigo Riestra
International Affairs Director at Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación A.C.
Alberto Díaz Lorente
Legal Counsel at LaLiga Competition Operations Department
Nicole A. Santiago
Coordinator, Player Relations & Competition at Major League Soccer
Marissa Sunio
Legal Counsel at WADA
Wouter Lambrecht
Attorney at Law at FC Barcelona
Jake Williams
Legal Counsel at Sportradar AG
Pedro Varas
Responsible for Integrity at LaLiga
Stefano Malvestio
Attorney at Law at Bichara & Motta Advogados
Eduard J. Scott
Chief Operations Officer at Euroleague Basketball
José Carlos Oliveira
Lawyer at Sporting Clube de Portugal
David Barrufet
Handball Manager FC Barcelona
Guillermo Amilibia
Legal Department at Real Sociedad
Tiran Gunawardena
Associate (Sports Law) at Mills & Reeve
Koji Nakata
Chief Relationship Officer at Kashima Antlers
Ornella Desirée Bellia
Head of Legal Affairs at the European Leagues
Marc Cavaliero
Partner at Kleiner & Cavaliero AG
Takehiko Nakamura
President and CEO of Blue United Corporation
Oleg Zadubrovskiy
Head of Legal at FC Zenit
Carlos Pérez
LaLiga Chief Executive Officer
Benoit Pasquier
General Counsel & Director of Legal Affairs of the Asian Football Confederation
Marco Vedovatti
Associate at Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira
Andrés Galicia
Director of Sports Marketing at Televisa Deportes
Michaela Pietraszko
Legal Counsel at UEFA
Gauthier Bouchat
Legal Counsel chez FIFA
Robert Pongracz
Vice President of the Romanian Football League
Catherine Pitre
Head of Case Management at Sport Resolutions (UK)
Gursimran Brar
Legal Counsel at Asian Football Confederation
Natalie St. Cyr Clarke
Legal Affairs Manager at FIBA
Arturo Galván
Legal Department at Málaga CF
Ryan Lake
Associate at LIBRA LAW Ibarrola & Ramoni Avocats
James Mungavin
Counsel at Lombardi Associates (Scotland)
Stephen Bock
Legal Affairs Manager at Fédération Internationale de Volleyball
Mr. Aitkhozhin Azamat
Secretary General of the Kazakhstan Football Federation
Brianna Quinn
Sports arbitration at Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler
Anil Gursoy
Head of Legal at Trabzonspor FC
Rishi Sehgal
Director of Business Development and Legal Affairs at NASL
Gilbert Jiang
General Counsel & Head of International Affairs of Hebei China Fortune Football Club
Gisele Cesário Cabrera
Lawyer at Santos Football Club
Monserrat Jiménez Granda
Legal Director in CONMEBOL
Ramunė Bistrickaitė
Head of Public Affairs at Sportradar AG
Victor Targino
Lawyer at Sport Club Corinthians Paulista
Yelena Giselle Hazimn
Puerto Rico Soccer Federation
