Sports Law

Code:

GD22

Acronym:

GD22

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Social and Behavioral Sciences

Instance: 2019/2020 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	2nd Cycle in Sports Management

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
2CGD	32	Official Plan	1	-	6	40	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Learning outcomes and competences

Working method

Presencial

Program

Part I - The framing of UC. Conceptual bases

I.  Identification, Framing and Relevance of Curricular Unit

1. Introductory Notions: Law and Social Life

• The human being and normativity
• Concept of Law. Law and Justice
  
  • The sources and branches of Law
  • The normative acts
          - Legislative acts
          - Regulatory acts
                - Article 112 of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic
                - The bodies with legislative competence
                - The bodies with regulatory powers
                - The idea of normative hierarchy
          - The validity of the law

2. Management of Sport and intimate relationship with the Sports Law: reasons and evidence
Part II: The political and regulatory bases of sport and sport management
II. Sports Law and the right to sport
1. Sports Law

• The sport as regulated social activity
• The concept and evolution
• Sports Law sources

2. The right to sport: Main normative texts

• The right to sport in the main international texts
• The right to sport in the main national texts
     - The Constitution of the Portuguese Republic and Sport
              - Implied and express mentions to Sport
              - Constitutional principles applied to Sport
    - The Sports Sector Bases Laws
              - Genesis and evolution of three laws:
                    - Law no. 1/90, of January 13;
                    - Law no. 30/2004, of July 21;
                    - Law no. 5/2007, of January 16;
              - Major guidelines and contents of these laws  
              - Analysis and discussion of the Basic Law of Physical Activity and Sport

Part III: The political and organizational foundations of sport management

• The national and international organic sports system and sports agents

III. The national organic sports system

• The private sports organization
       - Non-profit private organizations
              - The Sports Clubs
              - Regional Associations
              - Sports Federations
                         - The public sport utility statute
                         - The Club Leagues
               - Practitioners clubs
               - The Sports-Promoting Associations
               - Portuguese Confederation of Culture and Recreation Collectivities
               -  The Portuguese Sports Confederation
               - The Sports Foundation
               - The Portuguese Olympic Committee
      - Pro-fit private organizations 
               - Sports corporations
               - Commercial companies
•  The public sports organization
       - The Minister of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers
      - The Secretary of State for Youth and Sports
      - The Sports Institute of Portugal
                - The Regional Delegations
      - The National Sports Council
      -  Portuguese Anti-Doping Authority
      - The Regional Public Administration
      - The Local Public Administration
               - The Municipal Public Companies

•  The international sports system
        - Non-Governmental Structures
       - Intergovernmental structures

• Specially regulated sports agents
       -  Professional sports athlete
      - Sports agent
      - Sports coach
      - Technical director of gyms / Fitness Technician

Part IV: Sport - pluridimensional and different legal regimes

 IV. Multi-dimensional areas of sport and their legal systems. Application Sectors
4. Sports: plural and multi-dimensional reality and their legal systems

• Formal and informal sport: legal and management implications
• Federated sport vs non-federated sport.
• Professional sport vs non-professional sport
      -Structuring elements differentiating:
             - Competitions;
             - Professional sports practitioners;
             - League of clubs;
             - Sports clubs, SAD's and SDUQ's           

            - Sports discipline and sporting litigation
                    - The internal resolution by the sports movement
                    - The Court of Arbitration for Sport
                    - The intervention of the public judge

5. Local authorities and sports regulation

• Notion of Local Authority
• Local Authorities and the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic
• Local Authorities and the Framework Law of Sports System
• The framework for the transfer of attributions and skills to the local authorities
•  The framework of skills, as well as the legal regime of functioning of the bodies of municipalities and parishes; 
• Building and managing sports facilities and equipments
• Support to sports and recreational activities of municipal interest
       - The programme-contract for the sports development
       - The public utility condition

• Licensing and supervision of shows facilities
• The legal regime of municipal enterprises

6. The organization of sports events

• Reference to events considered of public interest
• Requirements and legal tools for the organization of sports events
      - Guiding background document
      - Licences
      - Security measures in sports facilities
      - Policing of sports events
      - Sports insurance
      - Sports patronage and sports sponsorship

 7. Sports facilities

• Legal regime of facilities for public use
        - Types of sports facilities
• Diverse regulation
• Gyms

8. Regulation and accreditation of professions

• Aspects of Labour Law and hiring in sport
• Coach activity
• Sports practitioners
    - Sports labour contract
    - Collective labour contract
• Labour contract vs Contract for service provision

V. The Sports Ethics

• The National Ethics Sport Plan
• Violence in sport
• Doping in sport
• Corruption in sport

Mandatory literature

Carvalho Maria José; A actividade desportiva profissional na lei de bases do desporto em Portugal
Meirim José Manuel; Lei de bases da actividade física e do desporto. ISBN: 978-972-32-1522-9
Carvalho Maria José; As autarquias locais e o desporto profissional
Carvalho Maria José; O^apoio material à prática desportiva de alta competição. ISBN: 972-8460-30-9
Carvalho Maria José; Mulheres e Desporto. ISBN: 978-972-98686-2-7
Carvalho Maria José; Empresas municipais de desporto
Carvalho Maria José; Elementos estruturantes do regime jurídico do desporto profissional em Portugal. ISBN: 978-972-32-1724-7
Meirim José Manuel; A^Federação desportiva como sujeito público do sistema desportivo. ISBN: 972-32-1089-4
Meirim José Manuel; Clubes e sociedades desportivas. ISBN: 972-24-0887-9

Teaching methods and learning activities

- Expository method of the main items of the program, alternating with the exploratory, interpretative and interactive methods in order to enable the students to understand and review the legislative, doctrinal and jurisprudential documents.

 

keywords

Social sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	30,00
Trabalho escrito	70,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	60,00
Frequência das aulas	40,00
Trabalho de investigação	15,00
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Total:	140,00

Eligibility for exams

Calculation formula of final grade