Sports & Entertnmt Law

Catalog description

LGST 4180 introduces students to the legal principles applicable to the sports and entertainment industries. The first part of the course focuses on entertainment law, and the second half explores sports law. The primary areas of the law that students examine are those relating to contracts, torts, intellectual property, agency, antitrust, labor and employment, as well as the business forms used in the sports and entertainment industries. The course also delves into policy problems and operational concerns that arise as the result of conflicting laws, as well as gaps in the laws applicable to these two industries.