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Title SPORT AND THE LAW
Code ULMS721
Coordinator Mr CR Barlow
Finance and Accounting
C.R.Barlow@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2024-25 Level 7 FHEQ Second Semester 10

Pre-requisites before taking this module (other modules and/or general educational/academic requirements):
 

Modules for which this module is a pre-requisite:
 

Programme(s) (including Year of Study) to which this module is available on a required basis:
 

Programme(s) (including Year of Study) to which this module is available on an optional basis:
 

Teaching Schedule
  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours 10

 15

       3

 28
Timetable (if known)              
Private Study 72
TOTAL HOURS 100

Assessment
EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
             
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
Individual assignment There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is an anonymous assessment. Assessment Schedule (When): Semester 2  0    70       
Contract Negotiation Exercise There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. This is not an anonymous assessment. Assessment Schedule (When): Semester 2  0    30       

Aims

To introduce students to the ways in which the football industry is subject to legal regulation;

To enable students to identify, understand and analyse the processes and forces of law in this area.

Learning Outcomes

(LO1) Understanding the basic processes of UK and EU law;

(LO2) Understand how the law regulates the football industry;

(LO3) Identify specific legal problems in football industry regulations and practices;

(LO4) Access, understand and use primary legal material.

(S1) Adaptability. Students will develop an awareness of how the law changes the football business.

(S2) Problem-solving skills. Students will be required to apply the law to scenario based problems.

(S3) Commercial awareness. Students will develop an awareness of commercial pressures of the football business.

(S4) Teamwork. Developed during group work in scenario discussion and negotiation exercise.

(S5) Organisation skills. Students will be required to meet assignment deadlines.

(S6) Communication skills. Developed during assignment presentation, negotiation exercise.

(S7) IT Skills. Developed during assignment preparation.

(S8) International awareness. Students will develop an awareness of impact of EU and international law and regulation.

(S9) Lifelong Learning skills. Developed during assignment presentation, negotiation exercise.

Teaching and Learning Strategies

2 hour lecture x 5 weeks
3 hour seminar x 5 weeks
36 minutes asynchronous or peer to peer directed learning x 5 weeks
72 hours self-directed learning

Syllabus
 

Introduction to the Law;
Challenging the decisions of governing bodies;
Arbitration.

Using legal resources;
The contract of employment;
Restraint of trade.

Equal opportunities and discrimination.

EU sports policy and competition law.

EU law and free movement.

Intellectual property;
Image rights.

Protecting sports properties and preventing ambush marketing.

Negotiation exercise.

Recommended Texts
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