SPT 515 - Legal Issues in the Sport Industry (3 credits)

This Sport Law course is designed to enable sport business management graduate students to expand their knowledge of some of the laws, rules and regulations that apply to the sport business industry and that impact the work setting of sport organizations. Students will learn about and analyze substantive legal concepts in the following core areas of law: constitutional, employment, antitrust, labor, intellectual property, agency, and contract and business law. The purpose of the course is to provide graduate students with an understanding of the legal issues involved in the operation and management of organizations in the sport business industry and to equip students with the skills and strategies needed to effectively work with business executives and lawyers to resolve these issues. F, S