Bachelor 2025/2026

International Sports Law and Arbitration

Type: Elective course (Law)

Delivered by: School of International Law

When: 4 year, 4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Language: English

Course Syllabus

Abstract

During this course students will study the concept, subject, history, sources, subjects, special principles of international sports law and the peculiarities of resolving sports disputes. The course comprises two parts. In the first part the course covers the process of legal regulation of international sports relations at the universal level within the framework of the United Nations and its specialized agencies and programs and at the regional level within the framework of the Council of Europe and the European Union, as well as the process of corporate regulation within the framework of sports organizations of the Olympic and Paralympic Movement (lex sportiva). The course identifies such problem areas as doping in sport, fan violence and hooliganism, environmental protection in the organization of international sport competitions, economic crime and discrimination in international sport, use of Olympic symbols, countering threats to health and safety. In the second part the course students will study normative acts that provide the basis for the composition, procedural requirements for the formation and functioning of jurisdiction bodies of the International Federation of Football (FIFA) and the International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). They will have an opportunity to participate in two role games that simulate the course of sports dispute resolution within the framework of FIFA and CAS, respectively.