Master en Global Executive Master In International Sports Law Ll.m On-line

The main importance of the Programme is focused on teaching topics on major elements of International Sports Law, which the professional daily life of an international sport lawyer or manager are not too much elaborated on.
Due to the fact that this Programme will be offered to already practicing and experienced lawyers or Sport
Managers with ongoing activities, the studies will be carried out by correspondence and on an 'on-line basis' however within the term of the program, three encounters will take place in Madrid for a period not lasting more than two days for each encounter. 

Methodology
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 Programes the students, which already have professional experience work better when self-directed, as they are shaped by the accumulation of authentic personal experience. Moreover their desire to learn grows out of a need to confront an ever-changing reality. 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 Instructors playing a key role, the online methodology supplemented by the encounters taking place in Madrid will make the perfect combination to provide the Students with the knowledge and skills they meant to reach when they joined the Master. 


All these have been settled and due to the fact that this Program will be offered to already practicing and experienced lawyers or Sport Managers with ongoing activities, it is therefore understood that our students will not be able to make themselves available for a consecutive period of study in Madrid, and so the studies will be carried out on an “on-line basis”. Each student will have a personal code with which he/she will access the classes on the website. The different classes are scheduled to be posted on-line every two weeks with the specific directions given by the lecturer, specifying the deadline for the students to send their cases, essays or exams.
During those two weeks, the student will read the documents and shall prepare the practical case and any other requests made by the professor. At the end of those two weeks, there will be an open discussion with the students in a forum where they will be able to raise any queries they may have.
The students shall prepare the classes as per the lecturers´ instructions (read or prepare cases or literature, study specific materials, etc.). Each class will be composed by 2 parts:
1) Part 1: the professor will provide the students with the following documents:
- earning material
- references to bibliography
- practical case
- test or exam
2) Part 2: the professor will have a forum with the students where they will debate questions arising on the particular topic of study and will provide them with a document containing the conclusions of the subject. Within the terms of the Master three encounters will take place in Madrid for a period not lasting more than two days for each encounter.
(a) The first one at the beginning of the Program, to be dedicated to a welcome ceremony as well as explaining and giving administrative instructions and an initial presentation on the first topic, which will be the topic of the first month. 
(b) The second meeting in the middle of the Program period, to be dedicated to a one or two-day course on the topic which will be studied in the relevant month.
(c) The third one will be at the end of the Program, dedicated to an open forum and discussion on a major topic of International Sport Law as well as a final exam of the Program. 

Academic Program
1. CHOICE OF LAW AND CONFLICT OF LAWS IN SPORT-RELATED DISPUTES AND PROCEEDINGS
International laws, regulations of sport organizations, law of the seat of the arbitral or judicial panel, choice of law by the parties, restrictions on the choice of law due to public law principles, etc.
2. SWISS PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW
With a special focus on International Arbitration (Chapter 12 of the Swiss Civil Code).
3. THE FIGHT AGAINST DOPING, WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON THE LEGITIMACY OF THE WADA CODE History, creation of WADA, purpose of the WADA Code, doping procedures in different sport organizations, the WADA Code in light of principles of criminal and disciplinary law and regulations, and as confronted with basic human rights and international conventions or directives regarding human rights.
4. CONFLICT OF JURISDICTION IN SPORT DISPUTES
The relation between proceedings brought before international courts or internal sport organization judicial bodies.
5. INTERNATIONALIZATION OF SPORT
With special focus on the relations between sport organizations which are mostly European entities subject to EU Law, however governing sport activities also in all parts of the world, not just subject to the
EU Law and principles.
6. SPORT LAW IN THE U.S.A.
The structure of sport organizations in the U.S.A. and their relation to international sport organizations, focusing on different views and attitudes regarding the structure of sport activities, international transfers, special regulations, as well as special characteristics in the laws of the game, etc.
7. SPORT AND EU LAW
The impact and influence of the EU Law on international sport-related issues.
8. SPORT FINANCING
Different attitudes towards sport activities financing, private ownership as opposed to public ownership and the co-existence of both regulatory issues related to sport financing, etc.
9. CAS/TAS
History, functions, proceedings and new developments with a special focus on matters of importance for practising lawyers representing and appearing in CAS/TAS.
10. EMPLOYMENT/LABOUR LAW IN THE FRAMEWORK OF SPORT
Basic principles of labour relations and their co-existence with sport organizations regulations, sportsmen as employees; The specificity of sport and its impact on the basic principles of labour relations.
11. THE DEFINITION OF 'SPORT' AND THE RECOGNITION OF AN ACTIVITY AS 'SPORT' G.A.I.S.F. (General Association of International Sports
Federations) The Olympic movement, with a special focus on those organizations, who is entitled to become a member and be recognized as 'Sport' or 'Olympic sport'?, etc.
12. 'LEX SPORTIVA'
Does it exist? Is there still a real debate on the question?