19938 - Contracts and Obligations in the Sports Sector

Learning outcomes

The main purpose of the course – within an overview of the current Private Law – is to enable students to efficiently handle Sports Law specific issues and the most important roles of people involved in sport activities. In particular, the general rules on Contract Law will be observed in order to develop a deep analysis of the specific contracts used in the context of the relationships between athletes, sports clubs and sponsors. The traditional Tort Law will be analysed focusing the attention on the specific sports activities in which a fundamental role is played by a peculiar liability limitation rule.

Course contents

General outlines of contract law. General outlines of tort law.

Work contract of professional and amateur athlet.

The sport agent.

Sponsoring and image exploitation contract.

Merchandising.

TV rights cession.

Sport liability in tort law.

Sport liability esonerating cause.

Athlet's liability

The liability of sport events organizer.

Sport facilities manager liability.

Teacher and choache liability.

Sport medical doctor liability.

Referee's liability.

Readings/Bibliography

Margherita Pittalis, Sport e diritto. L'attività sportiva fra performance e vita quotidiana, Milano, Wolters Kluwer-Cedam, 2023, pp. 165-727

 

Teaching methods

The introductory part of the course will be presented through lectures. In the second part of the course, the specific issues of private sports law will be analyzed dialectically with the personal or group contributions of the students.

Assessment methods

The assessment of the interview will be carried out taking into consideration:

• the knowledge of institutional profiles;
• the ability to analyze the jurisprudential and doctrinal guidelines;
• the ability to make connections between the different parts of the program;
• the ability to develop critical arguments;
• the exposure articulation;
• the accuracy of the exposure.

By way of example, the following criteria will be used to assign the final mark (that will be out of 30/30):

- knowledge of a very limited number of topics, extensive support by the interviewer to address and answer the questions, basic yet appropriate language à 18-19/30;

- knowledge of a limited number of topics, ability to autonomously address basic legal problems, use of appropriate language → 20-24/30;

- comprehensive knowledge of the programme, ability to autonomously and critically analyse legal problems, use of specific terminology → 25-29/30;

- extensive knowledge of the programme, ability to reason autonomously and critically analyse legal problems, make connections between the topics, ability to master the specific terminology and ability to present legal arguments. → 30-30L/30.

Registration for the final exam must be done using the Almaesami application ( https://almaesami.unibo.it/almaesami/welcome.htm ).

Degree thesis

The degree thesis will be assigned by Nicolò Cevolani.

Teaching tools

Supporting and reinforcing materials will be uploaded on Virtuale platform.

Office hours

See the website of Nicolò Cevolani