LLM International Sports Law in Practice

Sheffield Hallam University

Course summary

• Understand, analyse, critically evaluate and unlock complex sporting disputes.
• Learn how to effectively advise and represent real clients, via pre–trial behaviour, written and oral submissions, applications for disclosure, witness statements (including examination) and advocacy at the hearing.
• Gain expertise in either football law or anti–doping law and present a case to a sporting judicial forum.

Designed and delivered by internationally recognised experts, this course offers expertise in the practice and procedure before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), FIFA's Dispute Resolution Chamber (DRC) and other disciplinary courts and tribunals, with emphasis on the effective representation of the client in the resolution of complex sporting disputes.

How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive. Emphasis is given to case studies, with a continuous analysis of the practical aspects of sports law such as anti–doping litigation, football contracts with a focus on employment disputes involving intermediaries, players and clubs, European competition law aspects, injuries on and off the field, intellectual property rights, sponsorship contracts, negotiation and alternative dispute resolution. There are also shadowing and mentoring opportunities.

You learn through

• online modules with live and synchronous taught delivery
• recorded sessions
• self–directed study and research
• peer review and team work
• coursework
• viva examination

Future careers

This course prepares you for a career in

• anti–doping law
• football law
• sports marketing and sponsorship
• sports agencies
• sport governing bodies
• sport clubs
• private practice

Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work for anti–doping agencies, football clubs and sport governing bodies.