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DIRECTION OF THE PROGRAM

Dev Kumar Parmar

START DATE

March

DURATION

9 months

IDIOMA

English

FORMAT

Online

A leading program in the field of International Sports Law

The Global Master in International Sports Law is aimed and focused for professionals that are not able to attend a full time, one year long program. Students of this Master come from Law, Business Administration, and Economics backgrounds, who want to acquire practical and work oriented knowledge in the field of International Sports Law and Sport Management.

ISDE’s philosophy is not only to acquire the most up to date knowledge on Sports Law, but to acquire the skills that will help them to reach their professional goals, as well as a professional network within the industry.

To do so, our faculty is composed of the most relevant lecturers in the Sports Law and Management sector. Their commitment in making this program the best online master in sports law and management is the guarantee of its unparalleled excellence.

Why choose the Global Master in International Sports Law?

  • The Master´s faculty is composed by the most relevant international Sports Law professionals.

  • You will work on real sports law cases handled by other lawyers and professionals. Litigation, sports dispute resolution, ADR´s, arbitrations, mediations etc… The student will always have all the supporting documentation, claim, counterclaim, procedural strategy, writs, resources, sentences and awards, etc …

  • Over 1000 graduates are currently working in the Sports Law and Management Industry.
  • We offer a unique training methodology based on a combination of practical cases, master classes…

  • ISDE Alumni Employment Network and Networking with over 10,000 alumni, professors and program directors, made up of more than 200 professional firms from more than 30 countries.

Program objectives

Due to the fact that this program will be offered to professionals with ongoing activities, the training will be carried out by correspondence and on an online basis. However, within the term of the program, three encounters will take place in Madrid for a period lasting three days during weekends.

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 programs the students, which already have professional experience, work better when self-directed, as they are shaped by the accumulation of authentic personal experiences. 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 teachers playing a key role, the online methodology complemented by the encounters taking place in Madrid will produce the perfect combination to provide the students with the knowledge and skills they aimed to reach when they joined the Master.

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  • Each student will have a personal code with which they 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 parctical cases, essays or exams.

    During the two weeks, the student will read the documents and prepare the practical case or any other requests made by the professor.

    As indicated previously, within the terms of the master three encounters will take place in Madrid for a period not lasting more than three days during weekends.

    • The first one will take place at the beginning of the program. It will consist of a welcome ceremony as well as to explain the administrative instructions and an initial presentation on the first topic.
    • The second meeting will take place mid-way. It will cover the topic which will be studied in that particular month.
    • The third one will take place at the end of the program and will serve as a closing session.

Salidas profesionales

  • Agente Deportivo (FIFA – UEFA)
  • Bufetes jurídicos o auditorias
  • Federaciones e instituciones privadas y públicas
  • Entidades deportivas nacionales o internacionales

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

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 EU Legislation on international sport-related issues.

8. SPORT FINANCING

Different attitudes towards spor t 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,proceedingsandnewdevelopmentswitha 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?

ACADEMIC DIRECTION

Dev Kumar Parmar UK Dev Kumar Parmar is an international sports lawyer and an FA Registered Intermediary (English FA). He was Called to the Bar by The Honorable Society of the Inner Temple, and has previous experience in Criminal Defence.

Working on all aspects of representation, management and legal advice, Dev assists top class athletes and coaches from the English Premier League down, and in other key countries. Dev’s key role within the inaugural edition of the Indian Super League in 2014 also marks him as an important connection within the region.

Dev has appeared as a seminar leader at various institutions including both Cambridge and Oxford Universities and London School of Economics. In addition, he has been called to speak at the Youth Justice Board of England and Wales, and works with a number of London boroughs and community groups on providing various courses surrounding the legal profession. Dev has also been invited to speak in Brasil, Bulgaria, Iceland and India amongst nations.

In 2012 Dev was nominated for both the London Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games ‘Inspiring Person in the Community’ Award, and as a Barclays ‘Future Black Leader’ for the Top 100 of 2013.

Furthermore, Dev has set up ‘To A Degree’, in order to widen access to the legal profession, and has managed to successfully obtain placements for a number of promising students over the past years. Dev is a mentor to dozens of students and young professionals across the country.

Collaborating centers

Collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce of Madrid and New York

Partner and Collaborating Firms

Bayern de Múnich​​
Real Federación Española de Fútbol
NBA
New York Red Bulls
Comité Olímpico Internacional
Tribunal de Arbitraje Deportivo
Asian Football Confederation
Agencia Mundial Antidopaje
Excel Sports Management
Deloitte
KPMG
PwC
Cuatrecasas
Ernst & Young
Baker & McKenzie
Uría Menéndez
Penningtons Manches
Garrigues
ChaseLawyers
Squire Patton Boggs
Correia, Seara, Caldas, Simões e Associados