LLB245 Sports Law
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| Unit code: | LLB245 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | LLB102 and LLB106. LLB106 may be studied at the same time as LLB245 |
| Antirequisite(s): | LWB260, LWB460 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $2,040 |
| Pre-2021 CSP student contribution | $1,597 The pre-2021 commonwealth supported place (CSP) contribution amount only applies to students enrolled in a course prior to 2021. To learn more, visit our Understanding your fees page. |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,024 |
| International unit fee | $4,044 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Gardens Point, Internal
| Unit code: | LLB245 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | LLB102 and LLB106. LLB106 may be studied at the same time as LLB245 |
| Anti-requisite: | LWB260, LWB460 |
| Coordinator: | John O'Brien | john.obrien@qut.edu.au |
Overview
Sports Law covers the application of a wide range of legal principles to a sporting context. You will have studied some of the principles at a general level in core units, allowing you to consolidate your knowledge, while other areas of the unit will be new. Sport-specific legal principles (for example, regarding doping) will also be covered. Sport is an area that is becoming increasingly business-orientated and litigious. If you plan to work as a manager, administrator or lawyer in the area of sports you will, in the course of your day-to-day activities, encounter a wide variety of situations that could have potential legal consequences. The unit will draw upon your knowledge of legal systems and torts law and your research skills.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Identify relevant legal principles which can be applied to sport (CLO 1.1)
- Apply principles of law, such as those based in torts, contract, and discrimination, to real world problems in relation to sport and sports administration (CLOs 1.1, 2.1)
- Analyse and critically evaluate Australian sports law issues and policy considerations (CLOs 1.1, 2.1); effectively communicate legal concepts and solutions to sports law problems (CLO 4.1)
Content
The content of this unit includes:
- principles of law such as contracts, employment, discrimination, torts and crime that relate to sport and sports administration
- sports law issues such as doping and sporting tribunals
- regulation of sport and sports administration.
Learning Approaches
This unit employs an active and collaborative approach to learning. It involves both online, self-led learning practice, and live classes (both on-campus and online) where you will learn from staff and your peers. Prior to classes, you will be supported and engaged in this unit through the delivery of weekly pre-recorded podcasts to give a snapshot of relevant content. Following classes, you can practise your understanding through formative quizzes and other learning activities.
Your participation in this unit will include:
- Engagement with online materials
- Discussions in live tutorials (or discussions via Canvas for those unable to attend)
- Collaboration with peers and staff to network and share your understandings
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback on the development of your understanding of the law and skills learnt in this unit is provided through:
- interaction during tutorials
- the feedback on formative quizzes or other online activities
- the individual written feedback on your assignment
- the generic feedback on the assignment placed on the unit's Canvas site
- the generic feedback on the examination placed on the unit's Canvas site, and
- consultation with a member of the teaching team during student consultation times.
You should reflect upon the feedback on your assessment in this unit (both your individual and generic feedback as provided on Canvas) for the purpose of identifying:
- gaps in your knowledge and understanding of the legal principles
- inadequacies in your problem solving methodology
- strategies to improve your problem solving and written communication skills in further assessment, and
- areas for improvement for future studies within the LLB.
You should record your work, the feedback and your reflection, noting your strategies for improvement, in your Student ePortfolio.
Assessment
Overview
In this unit you will be graded on a scale of one to seven.
Overview of assessment:
Summative assessment will be based on your assignment and end of semester examination.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Journal Article assignment
This assignment will be a research essay (presented as a journal article) designed to assess your ability to analyse topical issues in sports law.
Acting as a sports lawyer, your supervising partner has asked you to research a topical area of sports law and write a short journal article (as a way of promoting your firm in this niche area of legal practice). The article needs to engage with an audience of both practitioners and academics - therefore needs to provide more than simply restating law, but rather provide analysis (and possibly evaluation). Lawyers (students) will have the ability to choose from a range of provided topics, or can negotiate their own topic choice in consultation with the supervising partner (Unit Coordinator).
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Examination
Open book examination assessing all topics in the unit.
It will involve a mix of multiple-choice questions and written response questions (which may be problem-solving tasks or other types).
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Canvas site
Online resources for this unit are available on the unit Canvas site.
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
David Thorpe et al, Sports Law (Oxford University Press, 4th ed, 2022)
Reference book(s)
Use of QUT Library databases to access sports law cases and journal articles, e.g. Australia and New Zealand Sports Law Journal, or Bond University Sports Law eJournal.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with this unit.
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Online
| Unit code: | LLB245 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | LLB102 and LLB106. LLB106 may be studied at the same time as LLB245 |
| Anti-requisite: | LWB260, LWB460 |
Overview
Sports Law covers the application of a wide range of legal principles to a sporting context. You will have studied some of the principles at a general level in core units, allowing you to consolidate your knowledge, while other areas of the unit will be new. Sport-specific legal principles (for example, regarding doping) will also be covered. Sport is an area that is becoming increasingly business-orientated and litigious. If you plan to work as a manager, administrator or lawyer in the area of sports you will, in the course of your day-to-day activities, encounter a wide variety of situations that could have potential legal consequences. The unit will draw upon your knowledge of legal systems and torts law and your research skills.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Identify relevant legal principles which can be applied to sport (CLO 1.1)
- Apply principles of law, such as those based in torts, contract, and discrimination, to real world problems in relation to sport and sports administration (CLOs 1.1, 2.1)
- Analyse and critically evaluate Australian sports law issues and policy considerations (CLOs 1.1, 2.1); effectively communicate legal concepts and solutions to sports law problems (CLO 4.1)
Content
The content of this unit includes:
- principles of law such as contracts, employment, discrimination, torts and crime that relate to sport and sports administration
- sports law issues such as doping and sporting tribunals
- regulation of sport and sports administration.
Learning Approaches
This unit employs an active and collaborative approach to learning. It involves both online, self-led learning practice, and live classes (both on-campus and online) where you will learn from staff and your peers. Prior to classes, you will be supported and engaged in this unit through the delivery of weekly pre-recorded podcasts to give a snapshot of relevant content. Following classes, you can practise your understanding through formative quizzes and other learning activities.
Your participation in this unit will include:
- Engagement with online materials
- Discussions in live tutorials (or discussions via Canvas for those unable to attend)
- Collaboration with peers and staff to network and share your understandings
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback on the development of your understanding of the law and skills learnt in this unit is provided through:
- interaction during tutorials
- the feedback on formative quizzes or other online activities
- the individual written feedback on your assignment
- the generic feedback on the assignment placed on the unit's Canvas site
- the generic feedback on the examination placed on the unit's Canvas site, and
- consultation with a member of the teaching team during student consultation times.
You should reflect upon the feedback on your assessment in this unit (both your individual and generic feedback as provided on Canvas) for the purpose of identifying:
- gaps in your knowledge and understanding of the legal principles
- inadequacies in your problem solving methodology
- strategies to improve your problem solving and written communication skills in further assessment, and
- areas for improvement for future studies within the LLB.
You should record your work, the feedback and your reflection, noting your strategies for improvement, in your Student ePortfolio.
Assessment
Overview
In this unit you will be graded on a scale of one to seven.
Overview of assessment:
Summative assessment will be based on your assignment and end of semester examination.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Journal Article assignment
This assignment will be a research essay (presented as a journal article) designed to assess your ability to analyse topical issues in sports law.
Acting as a sports lawyer, your supervising partner has asked you to research a topical area of sports law and write a short journal article (as a way of promoting your firm in this niche area of legal practice). The article needs to engage with an audience of both practitioners and academics - therefore needs to provide more than simply restating law, but rather provide analysis (and possibly evaluation). Lawyers (students) will have the ability to choose from a range of provided topics, or can negotiate their own topic choice in consultation with the supervising partner (Unit Coordinator).
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Examination
Open book examination assessing all topics in the unit.
It will involve a mix of multiple-choice questions and written response questions (which may be problem-solving tasks or other types).
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Canvas site
Online resources for this unit are available on the unit Canvas site.
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
David Thorpe et al, Sports Law (Oxford University Press, 4th ed, 2022)
Reference book(s)
Use of QUT Library databases to access sports law cases and journal articles, e.g. Australia and New Zealand Sports Law Journal, or Bond University Sports Law eJournal.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with this unit.