Learning outcomes of the curricular unit

(i) Study the administrative dimension of sports federations, especially in professional sport; 
(ii) Critically analyse sports federations in the light of global administrative law, identifying the main procedures, international networks and administrative legal values - case study in the doping area; 
(iii) Analyse and evaluate federative sports regulations from a constitutional, administrative and multilingual point of view - case study in the field of football; 
(iv) Examine the sanctioning role of sports federations (administrative sanctions); 
(v) Analysis of relevant TAD jurisprudence in administrative law matters

Syllabus

Module I - Framework 
1. Legal nature of Sports Federations 
2. The administrative dimension of federative sports structures, especially in professional sports 
3. Sports federations in the light of global administrative law: 
a) Lex sportiva and global administrative law; 
b) International networks; 
c) World Anti-Doping Agency and CAS ("Sports Arbitration Court") - procedural administrative legal values -the Pistorius case

Module II - Federative Sports Regulations: 
1. The federal sports regulations: constitutionality control;
2. Federal sports regulations - multilevel perspective.
a) Legal relationship between federative sports regulations and regulations issued by international organizations;
b) The European Union and the case of football

Module III - Sanctionary Power and Sports Federations: 
1. The administrative sanction;
2.The role of TAD