International Master in Sports Law, LLM Online

You will have the possibility to participate in an international trip to Switzerland, where you will have the chance to visit the following sports institutions and participate in sessions with your classmates.

• FIFA
• UEFA
• Federation Equestre International
• International Triathlon Union
• The Court of Arbitration for Sport
• Visits to clubs, institutions, companies, and sports entities.

You will acquire the knowledge to work in international law firms, sports organizations and bodies, international federations, clubs or in international sport institutions.

Understand how the sport is structured and organized and who are the main actors within the sports family.

• Who is who in the Sports Family.
• The different institutions and members of these institutions which compose the sports family and the game of hierarchical relationship between institutions and members.
• Relationship between international and national institutions and different models of organization of sports.

The Sport is highly regulated by rules and regulations issued by private and public entities. The module is aimed to explain the complex system of sources and the relationship between public and private rules.

• Private Nature of rules issued by international private associations (Federations).
• Applicability and application of private rules.
• Sports Law makers.
• Other legal system affecting private rules.

Alternative resolution mechanisms allows the sports family to keep its independence. Learn how these mechanism were created and the different kinds of arbitration bodies within the sports.

• Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms at international and national level.
• The important role played by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
• Consequences of the coexistence of ordinary Courts with Arbitration bodies.

Learn how an international competition is organized from a legal point of view. Negotiation of contracts involved in the organization of an event. Good Governance and integrity as policies to improve the credibility of the sports.

• Drafting contracts.
• Negotiating contracts.
• ASOIF and its policies to implement good governance.
• The fight against match fixing.
• FIFA policies on integrity.

The student will learn how the fight against doping is organized within the sports family. The antidoping rules and regulations and the institutions in charge of the fight against doping.

• IOC, WADA, ITA, CAS Antidoping division.
• Word Antidoping Code and the International Standards.
• CAS Jurisprudence and landmark cases in doping matters.

Clubs, players, athletes and coaches are subjected to taxation. Learn how they are taxed.

• International Treaties on double taxation.
• Tax residence and domicile.
• Taxation of individual athletes and taxation of players integrated into teams.
• Taxation of transfer of players, by-out clauses.

The module is aimed to explain the important role played by Swiss Law in the sports.

• Swiss Private International Law.
• Swiss Law on Associations.
• Swiss Labour Law.
• Swiss Code of Obligations.

The module is aimed to study in detail how to conduct arbitrary proceedings before international and national federation and before the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

• Proceedings before FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber and Player Status Committee.
• Proceedings before CAS.
• Ordinary Proceedings, appeal proceedings.

Being the football the king of the sports, football also generates much litigation. Learning FIFA rules and regulations on statute and transfers of players and jurisprudence in labour disputes at FIFA and CAS.

• FIFA Regulations on Status and Transfer of players.
• Relevant decisions of FIFA DRC.
• CAS jurisprudence on contractual stability.

• Miguel García Caba
  Head of Legal Department, Spanish Football Federation.
• Elena Naranjo
  Lawyer, Legal Department at Real Madrid C.F.
• José Manuel Maza
  Lawyer, Legal Department at Real Madrid C.F.
• Álvaro Gil
  Legal Advisor, Club Atlético de Madrid.
• Juan de Dios Crespo Pérez
  Founder and Partner, Ruiz Huerta y Crespo.
• Paolo Torchetti
  Lawyer, Ruiz Huerta y Crespo.
• Enric Ripoll
  Lawyer, Ruiz Huerta y Crespo.
• Alfonso León
  Lawyer, Ruiz Huerta y Crespo.
• Rodrigo Arias Grillo
  FIFA Integrity Director.
• Maite Nadal Charco
  Lawyer and Partner, Laffer Abogados.
• José Lasa Azpeitia
  Lawyer and Partner, Laffer Abogados.
• Claude Ramoni
  Lawyer and Partner, Libra Law.
• Marc Cavaliero
  Partner and founder of , Kleiner&Cavaliero.
• Jan Kleiner
  Partner and founder of , Kleiner&Cavaliero Partner Bar&Karrer.
• José Juan Pinto
  Founder and Partner, Pinto Ruiz del Valle. CAS Arbitrator.
• Lucas Ferrer
  Head of Legal Department, Pinto Ruiz del Valle..
• Jordi López Batet
  Partner, Pinto Ruiz del Valle CAS Arbitrator.
• Antonio Fernández Arimany
  General Secretary , International Triathlon Union. ICAS MEMBER.
• Francisco Lima
  Senior Legal Counsel, Fédération Equestre Internationale.
• Benjamin Cohen
  Director International Testing Agency.
• Antonio de Quesada
  Legal Counsel, Court of Arbitration for Sport.
• Alberto Colombo
  Head of EUROPEAN LEAGUES ASSOCIATION.
• Oriol Abad
  Head of legal department DORNA.
• Kepa Larumbe
  Partner and head of legal department Sports Law & e-sports BDO. CAS Arbitrator.
• James Carr
  Head of Administration & Projects ASOIF.
• Jacques Blondin
  Head of FIFA TMS.
• Roy Veermer
  Head of Legal Department FIFPro.

The International Online LLM in Sports Law is intended for professionals, with or without experience in Sports Law, who wish to broaden their knowledge to serve as lawyers at the international level in global law firms, sport organisations and other recognised sporting institutions.

Admission in the International Online LLM in Sports Law requires command of the English language and a law degree.