Legal Aspects of Sport Management

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This course explores the legal principles of the sport industry and provides a basic knowledge of the legal statuses that relate to various dimensions of sport business. It includes legal principles that affect the prudent performance of all those involved in sporting events and will look at federal legal legislation as it affects program development. Major focus is on a review of judicial opinions in the areas of tort liability (risk management), agency and contract law, labor and employment law and antitrust issues. Topics to be addressed include right to participate, liability for injuries, legal status of sports organizations, risk management, assertion of legal rights, and crisis management. Other areas of sport industry law to be covered are contracts, negligence, gender equity, sport labor relations, and selected current issues.