Università Roma Tre

The first part of the course requires an introduction on the sports legal order and its legal sources.
The following topics will be mostly discussed during the lectures: the employment sports contract; the sports agent; communication and imaging exploitation commercial contracts (sponsorship, commercial advertising, merchandising, licensing); other sports contracts (ticketing, broadcasting rights selling, ambush marketing); torts (general aspects, civil liability referred to athletes, teachers, coaches, events’ organizers, sports facilities’ managers, institutions and other stakeholders a latere involved in sports activities); sports justice, arbitration and other ADR procedures.
Other topics of the course: the parties of the sports legal order (IOC, CONI, national and international sports federations, Confederations, associated sports, sports-supporting institutions, sports companies and associations, athletes, sports auxiliaries, doping).

Ettore Battelli, Diritto Privato dello Sport, Giappichelli, Torino, 2024 (last edition)

A pre-appeal exam is scheduled for December, reserved for attending students.