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The most direct and effective program to be successful in sports law and sports business

Our mission with this program is to accelerate and amplify your professional success in the sports industry.

Program Timelines and Curriculum

  • Set up for success: Meet your Program Directors, discover the learning methodology, and get to know your fellow participants.
  • Foundations: The legal, economic, and geopolitical framework of professional sports and its latest developments.
  • Q&A: Answers to your questions and personalised support.
  • Lesson 1: A little history and sociology
  • Lesson 2: A little economics
  • Lesson 3: A little geopolitics
  • Lesson 4: A little law
  • Lesson 5: A bit of history, economics, geopolitics, and law combined in a concrete issue
  • Lesson 1: Why Switzerland is a prominent place in sports law?
  • Lesson 2: Sports organisations as Swiss associations: the "pyramid"
  • Lesson 3: The relationship and coexistence between sport regulations and State laws
  • Lesson 4: Selected aspects of the Swiss code of obligation
  • Lesson 5: “Swiss made” mechanisms of dispute resolution
  • Lesson 6: Is Switzerland still a safe "legal and judicial" place for international sports federations and the IOC, or do EU and US laws now prevail in some way?
  • Lesson 1: Economics aspects of professional sports
  • Lesson 2: Economic data of key sports markets and events
  • Lesson 3: Economic impact of sports events
  • Lesson 4: Selected aspects of the economics of professional team sports
  • Lesson 5: The potential of women and paralympic sports
  • Lesson 6: Is professional sport sustainable? Or could it be? Or not...
  • Lesson 1: Sport in a world of geopolitical economy
  • Lesson 2: The giga changes reordering sport
  • Lesson 3: A global pivot, multipolarism and national competitive advantage
  • Lesson 4: Sport’s new statism – the rise of new policies and strategies
  • Lesson 5: Geopolitical economy of the Arabian Gulf
  • Lesson 6: Geopolitical economy of Africa
  • Lesson 7: Geopolitical economy of the United States
  • Lesson 8: Navigating 21st century sport
  • Lesson 1: Key EU Law concepts to bear in mind
  • Lesson 2: The 70's: let's get started. The Walrave judgement. The Dona Mantero judgement.
  • Lesson 3: From the Bosman judgement to the Meca-Medina judgement
  • Lesson 4: Commercial cases versus regulatory cases: not quite the same story
  • Lesson 5: European Super League - International Skating Union - Royal Antwerp FC: the monopoly is over
  • Lesson 6: European Super League - International Skating Union - Royal Antwerp FC: specific comments
  • Lesson 7: The Lassana Diarra judgement. A new "Bosman". Or even more?
  • Lesson 8: The RFC Seraing judgement. A revolution regarding dispute resolution.
  • Lesson 9: FIFPRO Europe against FIFA: The Global Calendar
  • Lesson 10: The football agent case - TICOMBO. To what extent can sports regulators regulate the commercial activities of third parties?
  • Lesson 11: Sports and European Human Rights (the ECHR)
  • Lesson 12: How to use EU Law to challenge the legality of professional sports stakeholders' behaviours? Practical advice.
  • Lesson 13: What's next?
  • Lesson 1: Leagues: rules and outcomes
  • Lesson 2: Financial valuation 
  • Lesson 3: Distribution of the product: ticketing, media and sponsorship
  • Lesson 4: Sports Facility/Stadium/Arena/Venue Financing
  • Lesson 5: Antitrust economics & governing bodies
  • Lesson 6: Economics of College Sports in the U.S.
  • Lesson 1: Are there State laws or Federal law regulating professional sports in the United States?
  • Lesson 2: Labour market regulation: player salary regulation and recruitment regulation
  • Lesson 3: The use of a collective bargaining agreement as a key element of regulation
  • Lesson 4: The revenue sharing system from a legal perspective
  • Lesson 5: Tools used to promote greater gender equality and fight against discrimination
  • Lesson 6: Some considerations on the specificities of soccer in the US
  • Lesson 1: Introduction and general remarks
  • Lesson 2: How does / how should state intervene in sport?
  • Lesson 3: States' approach to sport
  • Lesson 4: Contractual relations
  • Lesson 5: Criminal law
  • Lesson 6: Security at sporting events
  • Lesson 7: Broadcasting and free movement
  • Lesson 8: The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
  • Lesson 9: National sports governing bodies and state regulation
  • Lesson 10: International federations and state regulation
  • Lesson 1: FIFPRO introduction. Labour law and the transfer system.
  • Lesson 2: The reality after "DIARRA" (introduction)
  • Lesson 3: Football player's employment contracts
  • Lesson 4: Women’s football: maternity regulations and other specificities
  • Lesson 5: FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber (DRC)
  • Lesson 6: FIFA Regulation on the Status and Transfer of Players (RSTP)
  • Lesson 1: Basketball
  • Lesson 2: UFC
  • Lesson 3: Cycling
  • Lesson 4: Padle
  • Lesson 5: Rugby
  • Lesson 6: Horse Jumping
  • Lesson 7: Handball
  • Lesson 8: Tennis
  • Lesson 1: UEFA level
  • Lesson 2: National level
  • Lesson 3: Economic data
  • Lesson 4: Limitations imposed by EU Competition law: does costs control require a Collective Bargaining Agreement?
  • Lesson 1: Financial position
  • Lesson 2: Financial performance and sustainability
  • Lesson 3: Club financial analysis
  • Lesson 4: Football club valuation
  • Lesson 5: Football players and finance
  • Lesson 6: Financial cost control and club responses
  • Lesson 1: Football player agents
  • Lesson 2: Agents in other European sports
  • Lesson 3: A look at the US sports
  • Lesson 4: Sports agent contract
  • Lesson 5: What is a "good agent"?
  • Lesson 6: What is a "sportwomen/sportmen lawyer"?
  • Lesson 7: Which fields of law must a sportwomen/sportmen lawyer master?
  • Lesson 8: Main contracts with other stakeholders: a few examples
  • Lesson 9: Some professional and negotiation tips
  • Lesson 1: Disciplinary procedures & European Union law
  • Lesson 2: Scope and nature of disciplinary procedures
  • Lesson 3: Key features of disciplinary procedures
  • Lesson 4: Specific aspects of disciplinary proceedings
  • Lesson 5: A few words about FIFA
  • Lesson 6: A few words about Union Cycliste International (UCI)
  • Lesson 7: A few considerations regarding WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency)
  • Lesson 8: Conclusion
  • Lesson 1: What is arbitration and what are its legal basis?
  • Lesson 2: Traditional arbitration and arbitration in sport
  • Lesson 3: Arbitration in sport: a generalised practice
  • Lesson 4: Review mechanisms by state courts
  • Lesson 5: RFC Seraing and Semenya: the game changers
  • Lesson 6: CAS: ordinary arbitration and appeal arbitration
  • Lesson 7: Some landmark CAS awards
  • Lesson 8: Other international arbitration mechanisms
  • Lesson 9: Conclusion
  • Lesson 1: Which stakeholders can generate commercial revenues? And how?
  • Lesson 2: Relationship between commercial revenues and ownership of rights
  • Lesson 3: Tax considerations related to income generation in the football industry
  • Lesson 4: Contract law
  • Lesson 5: Audiovisual rights and broadcasting exploitation
  • Lesson 1: Legal framework
  • Lesson 2: Potential class action in relation with sport in Europe (and some precedents in the US)
  • Lesson 3: The litigation funder: a key actor for class actions
  • Lesson 1: Why are investors attracted to European Football?
  • Lesson 2: The Sports Landscape: Europe vs the US
  • Lesson 3: The emergence of Private Equity and other Institutional Investors
  • Lesson 4: Deal Structures
  • Lesson 5: Investment strategies in European Football
  • Lesson 1: What is insurance and what is its role in society?
  • Lesson 2: Who are the parties to the insurance contract and what are its essential elements?
  • Lesson 3: How does insurance adapt to the specific nature of sport?
  • Lesson 4: What types of insurance policies are specific to the world of sport? – Part 1
  • Lesson 5: What types of insurance policies are specific to the world of sport? – Part 2
  • Lesson 1: Bidding procedures
  • Lesson 2: Main framework and stakeholders
  • Lesson 3: Interactions with local, regional, and national government administrations
  • Lesson 4: Ambush marketing
  • Lesson 1: Strategic and Organizational Management
  • Lesson 2: Financial and Economic Management
  • Lesson 3: Sporting Management
  • Lesson 4: Marketing, Branding and Communication
  • Lesson 5: Stakeholder and Community Relations
  • Lesson 6: Fortuna for Everyone: Case Study
  • Lesson 1: Sports Governance and Its Failures
  • Lesson 2: The Case for EU Sports Regulation
  • Lesson 3: The European Sports Model: Law and Policy
  • Lesson 4: Designing European Sports Legislation: Choices and Strategies
  • Lesson 1: Insights from a representative of a major club in a top league
  • Lesson 2: Insights from a representative of a major club in a small league
  • Lesson 3: Insights from a representative of a major league (LaLiga)
  • Lesson 4: Insights from a representative of a major league (The Premier League)
  • Lesson 5: Insights from a representative of a small league (Belgian Pro League)
  • Lesson 6: Insights from a sports journalist
  • When sport is not just a game. Learn directly from elite athletes as they explain how law, economics, and geopolitics have influenced their professional careers. And how professionals like you can add real value to athletes at the highest level.
  • Real sports contracts and agreement templates

Access a curated list of real professional sports contracts and agreement templates: A football player and his club. A football player and his commercial representation agency. A football player and his main sponsor. A sports organisation and an athlete participating in its competition. Two clubs for the transfer of a player. A football agent and a player, etc.

  • Resources to accelerate your career in the sports industry

Access a curated list of resources to accelerate your career in the sports industry: Sports law firms. Job portals, recruitment agencies and headhunters.

  • Resources to ensure legal, economic, and geopolitical monitoring in professional sports

Access a curated list of resources to ensure legal, economic, and geopolitical monitoring in professional sports: Sports Law Associations. Sports Law Journals, Reviews & Research Centers. Sports Economics Associations. Sports Economics Journals, Reviews & Research Centers. Sports, Politics, Geopolitics & Sociology resources.

  • Recap: The most important concepts in law, economics, and geopolitics of professional sports.
  • Deep Dive: Analysis of one specific topic in law, economics, and geopolitics of professional sports.
  • Q&A and Cases: Get answers to your questions and discuss real-life cases you are facing.
  • What's next?: What is the next big thing in law, economics, and geopolitics of professional sports.
  • Career advice: A few tips to make your own mark in the sports industry.
  • Q&A and Cases: Get answers to your questions and discuss real-life cases you are facing.

This Executive Program is NOT about packaging up information. It's about career transformation and game-changing results.

The WHY of this Executive Program is: Master the rules of the sports industry. Use them. Or change them.

It equips you with a sense of anticipation—the ability to discern what is likely to come next—enabling you to stay ahead of the curve and lead rather than follow.

The curriculum has been carefully identified and developed to cover the knowledge and skills participants need to achieve their professional goals in the sports industry.

The lecturers are not just university professors or academics but also and mainly, each one in his field, among the most respected, renowned and successful professionals in the sports industry. They practise what they teach, at the highest level, every day.

The lecturers represent all stakeholders in the sports industry which ensures you learn all sides of law, economics and geopolitics in sport, and not only the one inspired by the interests of sports governing bodies. You learn all points of view.

Hence, our aim is to provide you with the tools that will enable you to learn more objectively, to think more accurately and to act more effectively. Our final ambition is to enable you to flourish in a complex but exciting sector.

If this is what you are looking for, this Executive Program is right for you.

We think so and have designed it to be so. There are many “masters in sports law”, which usually include one economics subject or another. Some of these masters are excellent. But those that are worthwhile generally last one academic year and represent a considerable investment of time and money.

“Law, Economics and Geopolitics of Professional Sports: How to be successful, globally and locally” is a very high-quality, time and cost-effective alternative to the traditional approach: in 46 hours of curated online Lectures and 4 hours of Live Sessions, world-class lecturers and key players in the sector will highlight and summarize for you the essentials of their knowledge and expertise.

In addition, at the end of each module, they will provide you with a detailed list of the best readings and sources, which will enable you - if you wish - to delve deeper into a particular aspect of the subject.

In short, in 50 hours of curated, dense and practical Masterclasses, you will acquire a comprehensive and effective knowledge of law, economics and geopolitics applied to professional sport. At the highest level. Faster.

This Executive Program has been designed so that each participant has strong chances to reach their desired end outcome:

  • Get a job within the sports industry
  • Obtain a senior/executive level position
  • Get a salary increase
  • Manage people and projects
  • Change job function/occupation
  • Change job industry
  • Be self-employed/entrepreneur
  • Expand network

As long-time professionals in this sector, we have already gone through these challenges and know from firsthand what is necessary to succeed in them.

  1. Career Trajectory

One way this Executive Program provides a return on investment is the expansion and acceleration of your career. The program provides the hard and soft skills to be an effective contributor and leader in sports business. You’ll learn how to solve complex problems and make decisions. These skills are highly valued in leaders and can not only help you land roles with increasing responsibility but lead your team through difficult challenges.

  1. Earning Potential

Along with career acceleration comes increased earning potential. There’s an investment on your part, but the return on investment from a purely financial standpoint can be compelling. Especially in an industry that’s used to managing important amounts of money. The program sets you up to earn more than you would without it.

  1. Connections

Finally, this Executive Program provides immense value in the form of connections. It is a transformative experience. Any time you go through a transformative experience with others, it creates bonds that will last a long time. The connections you’ll make in this Executive Program, both with participants and lecturers, can lead to professional opportunities to advance your career.

So yes, if you aim to accelerate your career and become a well-connected professional in the sports industry, this Executive Program will definitely help.

If you don’t enjoy the program, you will enjoy our unconditional money-back guarantee! We are so confident that this program will transform your career that if you eventually decide that it's not for you, no hard feelings.

Here's the deal:

Attend the first Live Session and complete the first module of the program. Then, If you decide it’s not for you, just let us know before starting the second module of the program.

We'll refund 100% of your investment.

No questions.
No conditions.

Why?
Because if you're not happy,
we are not happy.

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