Overview

This text fills the need for an accessible textbook covering the issues faced by people studying or already working in any sport management capacity. There are many legal principles that anyone in sport management must understand and apply on a daily basis. This book presents Canadian students with a broad range of principles, issues, and cases, along with providing the practical application of essential legal theory in the sport context. Covering everything from risk management to contracts, violence in sport to negligence and liability and much more, this will be a welcome resource for courses at universities and colleges, as well as for practising sport managers.

It is suitable for many audiences, including: undergraduate or graduate students who are taking courses in sport management, sport and law, kinesiology, or recreation; more intensive college and university college courses in which students need more than recreation basics, but require a broader legal perspective; many sport organizations beyond universities and colleges where a resource is required to conduct employee education workshops; for distribution to members and boards, and for employees to use on a daily basis as a valuable reference and resource.

TopContent Summary

Preface

• Chapter 1: The Canadian Legal System and Sport Law
• Chapter 2: Negligence and Liability
• Chapter 3: Violence in Sport: A Legal Perspective
• Chapter 4: Administrative Law: Fairness in Decision Making
• Chapter 5: Doping
• Chapter 6: Discrimination in Sport
• Chapter 7: Working Relationships
• Chapter 8: Intellectual Property and Licensing Agreements
• Chapter 9: Contracts
• Chapter 10: Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Chapter 11: Risk Management

Glossary
Index

TopAbout the Authors

Rachel Corbett, Hilary Findlay, and David Lech are affiliated with the Ontario-based consultancy group, The Centre for Sport and Law. Together they bring many years of practical experience to bear in creating this book. Hilary Findlay is also Associate Professor in the Department of Sport Management at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario.