Course: Law in sport

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Course title Law in sport
Course code KTV/PVS
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Novotný Vojtěch, JUDr.
Course content
Lectures and seminars: 1. General legal terms, types of legal systems, subjects of legal relationship and classification of law. 2. Sources of law, their classification and normative power including practical acquisition of the procedures to search particular sources of law and how to be well informed about them - with the focus on sport-law and leisure-activities-adjusting law regulations. 3. Legislative, executive and judicial power, legislative process, organs of executive power with the direction to organs in the field of sport and leisure time. 4. The term of sport law, sportsmen's position in the law with the distinguishing of amateur and professional sportsmen. 5. Sport organizations (clubs, federations, associations), their legal form, organs, rights and duties of their members. 6. Doping, antidoping regulations, antidoping politics on the intrastate and international level, responsibility of sport organizations and sportsmen. 7. Solving of legal and other disputes in sport. 8. Contracts in sport with the emphasis on professional sport. 9. Responsibility of sportsmen for injuries from the aspect of criminal and civil law. 10. Legal rudiments of organizing sport events. 11. Legal aspects of insurance in sport. 12. Other branches of law interfering in sport such as nature and landscape protection law, criminal law etc. 13. Revision of the curriculum. 14. Credits.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monological explanation (lecture, presentation,briefing)
  • Class attendance - 42 hours per semester
  • Preparation for credit - 10 hours per semester
  • Preparation for exam - 40 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The aim of the subject is to first provide students with the basic law theory and then to introduce them the particular law norms related to the field of sport and leisure activities. Students will gain a notion of what belongs to the term of sport law and on what law background sport organizations, clubs, federations and international associations work and to which branches of law sport extends.
Students will gain a notion of what belongs to the term of sport law and on what law background sport organizations, clubs, federations and international associations work and to which branches of law sport extends.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of students in the field of law is assumed.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, Student's performance analysis

Course credit requirements: Active participation at the seminars, demonstration of the knowledge and orientation in the content of law norms and regulations. Examination requirements: Oral examination.
Recommended literature
  • JURKA, H. Právní úprava profesionálního sportu v České republice a zahraničí.. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2018. ISBN 978-80-7552-883-4.
  • KRÁLÍK, M. Civilní a trestní odpovědnost sportovců za sportovní úrazy.. Praha: Leges. Extra, 2016. ISBN 978-80-7502-127-4.
  • MAISNER, M., DOUBRAVA, P., JANÁK, J., VLACHOVÁ, B., DOMBROVSKÁ, M.. Základy sportovního práva.. Praha: C. H. Beck, 2019. ISBN 978-80-7400-744-6.
  • NEKOLA, J. Sport a doping.. Velké Přílepy: Olympia, 2018. ISBN 978-80-7376-539-2.


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