Online PhD in Sports Law Admission 2024-25, Important Topics, Year Wise Comparison for Students Placed, Sports

ONLINE PHD IN SPORTS LAW

This course is designed to help you examine sports governing bodies and the foundations of sports and ethics. You will explore topics including doping, anti-discrimination laws and human rights acts affecting sports. In addition to studying core modules, you will be able to choose from a wide variety of optional, insightful modules, enabling you to tailor your studies and specialize in your chosen area of interest. This course is suitable for both lawyers and non-legal professionals with an interest in the field of sports law. After completing this course graduates will be able to develop into roles such as sports regulation and governance, commercial sports, sports broadcasting, and sports management.

Key features

Board members of the British Association for the Sport and Law, including leading sports law practitioners, have contributed to the course content.

This course is taught by experienced academics and practitioners.

Develop your own personal pathway. This course combines one core module with a diverse range of optional modules

Study at your own pace. Enjoy flexible distance learning, with the option to exit at one of the several points with a postgraduate award

Differentiate yourself in the job market. Gain a competitive edge by increasing your knowledge of Sports law

Boost your employability. Improve your career and employability options in the globalized job market.

Library services:

On campus, the main Kimberlin Library offers the space where you can work, study and access a vast range of print materials, with computer stations, laptops, plasma screens and assistive technology also available.

As well as providing the physical space in which to work, we offer online tools to support your studies, and our extensive online collection of resources accessible from our Library website, e-books, specialized databases and electronic journals and films which can be remotely accessed from anywhere you will choose.

We will support you to confidently use the huge range of learning technologies, including Blackboard, Collaborate Ultra, and DMU Replay, MS Teams, Turnitin and more. Alongside this, you can access LinkedIn Learning and learn how to use Microsoft 365, and study support software such as mind mapping and note-taking through our new Digital candidate Skills Hub.

The library staff offers additional support to candidates, including help with academic writing, research strategies, literature searching, reference management and assistive technology. There is also a ‘Just Ask’ service for help and advice, live LibChat, online workshops, tutorials and drop-ins available from our Learning Services, and weekly library live chat sessions that give you the chance to ask the library teams for help.

Course modules

The Sports Regulatory Regime and Sports Rights – this module looks at the sport’s governing bodies and the foundations of the sports and ethics, in particular taking an in-depth look at doping control in sports. You will also examine the anti-discrimination laws and human rights acts that affect sports.

You will also select elective modules which might include:

• Commercial Aspects of Sports
• Event Management
• Negotiated Study
• Representing the Athlete or Player
• Sport, Broadcasting and New Media
• Sports Governance
• The Sports Participant and the Courts
• Sports and Ethic (Advanced)

Dissertation

You must also undertake the dissertation, providing an invaluable opportunity to study a particular aspect of the law in-depth. You will need to the application and enhance your technical knowledge and critical awareness in the subject of your choice. In order to obtain the LLM in Sports Law and Practice it is necessary to write a dissertation with the sports law theme.

Note: All modules are indicative and based on the current academic sessions. Course information is correct at the time of publication and is subject to the review. Exact modules may, therefore, vary for your intake in order to keep the content current. If there are changes to your course we will, where reasonable, take steps to inform you as appropriate.

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