Name: Dr Mark Giancaspro
Location: Room 3.04, Ligertwood Building
Telephone: (08) 8313 0879 (work)
Email: mark.giancaspro@adelaide.edu.au
Course Website: www.myuni.adelaide.edu.au
Consultations: Appointments can be made (on short notice) by email or telephone.

Each week there will be a two-hour lecture and a one-hour seminar. The seminars will be used flexibly and include presentations from guest speakers, practical activities, visual media (such as short documentaries and films), group discussions and the like.

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Reflect upon the relationship between Australian sport and law, and the nature of and reasons for changes in that relationship, including international and policy perspectives;
2. Analyse and apply in a principled manner the intermediate principles of administrative, criminal, tort, contract, employment and intellectual property law having particular relevance to Australian sport. Undertake legal research at an intermediate level, and evaluate and apply a range of legal sources to respond to legal questions;
3. Structure and sustain concise and cohesive written arguments for a legal and non-legal audience. Communicate and work effectively individually and as part of a team;
4. Engage in informed debate over the suitability of existing legal and regulatory arrangements for Australian sport within the global scene; and
5. Interact with peers in an ethical manner, appropriate to an academic environment. Exercise professional judgement in completion of in-class activities and assessments.

Sports Law affords valuable opportunities to study a diverse range of challenging theoretical and practical legal issues within an interesting and highly topical setting. The course should assist in developing legal knowledge and understanding of wide application.

The prescribed textbook for this course is David Thorpe et al, Sports Law (Oxford University Press, 3^rd ed, 2017). The textbook will be supplemented with additional materials.

A series of recommended readings and resources may be provided for each learning week. These will be outlined in MyUni.

The MyUni course page for this course can be accessed at http://www.adelaide.edu.au/myuni/. MyUni will be used for communication, including the posting of announcements. Besides this Course Outline, students can also use MyUni to access the weekly learning modules, copies of the PowerPoint slides used in lectures, recordings of lectures, assessment tasks, and other course materials. Students are expected to check MyUni regularly to keep up to date with these materials and additional learning resources throughout the course.

Students in this course are expected to attend all lectures and seminars throughout the semester (including online attendance where sessions are delivered digitally). The lectures will offer an overview of the topics covered in the course, according to the Learning Activities Summary.

The seminars will involve a combination of activities and include presentations from guest speakers, practical activities, visual media (such as short documentaries and films), group discussions and more. These sessions are designed to encourage deeper, active engagement with the issues covered in the lectures.

The course requires a combined weekly commitment of 3 hours attending lectures and seminars (including online attendance where sessions are delivered digitally), equating to a total of 36 hours of formal class time across the semester. In addition to the time spent attending the lectures and seminars, there is a requirement that students prepare for the seminars. To actively and productively participate, students will have to do reading and preparation. The assigned readings and lecture slides provide a context for the material covered in the lectures and seminars. Students should expect to devote an average of 12 hours per week to their studies in the course.

TEACHING WEEK	DATES	TOPIC
Week 1	March 1-5	History and Governance of Sport in Australia
Week 2	March 8-12*	Sports Tribunals and Judicial Review
Week 3	March 15-19	Drugs and Doping
Week 4	March 22-26	Gambling and Corruption in Sport
Week 5	March 29-April 2	Civil Liability for Sporting Injuries
Week 6	April 5-9*	Criminal Liability for On-Field Violence
MID SEM BREAK	April 12-23	NO CLASSES
Week 7	April 26-30*	Athlete Misbehaviour
Week 8	May 3-7	Discrimination in Sport
Week 9	May 10-14	Intellectual Property and Marketing
Week 10	May 17-21	Trade and Competition in Sport
Week 11	May 24-28	Sport as 'Work': Player Contracts and Agency
Week 12	May 31-June 4	Animals in Sport

*Note: Monday 8 March, Monday 5 April and Monday 26 April are public holidays. There will be no classes on these dates.

None.

Not applicable.

Assessment Task	Task Type	Length	Due	Weighting	Redeemable	Learning Outcome
Legal Memo	Individual	1000 words	09/04/2021 at 5pm	15%	No	1,3,4
Case Judgment	Group	2000 words	30/04/2021 at 5pm	30%	No	2-5
Essay	Individual	4000 words	02/07/2021 at 2pm	55%	No	1-4

Each piece of assessment is compulsory. None of the assessment is redeemable.

(1) LEGAL MEMO (15%)

Release Date: The Legal Memo task sheet will be released at 12:00pm on Friday 26 March.

Due Date: The Legal Memo must be submitted by 5:00pm on Friday 9 April.

Details: This exercise will require students to write a legal memo in response to a hypothetical scenario. The scenario will address legal problems based upon issues drawn from one or more of the topics covered in Weeks 1-4.

Word Limit: 1000 words.

(2) CASE JUDGMENT EXERCISE (30%)

Release Date: The Case Judgment task sheet will be released at 12:00pm on Friday 9 April.

Due Date: The Case Judgment must be submitted by 5:00pm on Friday 30 April.

Details: This exercise will require students to work in prearranged groups to write a legal judgment summarising the relevant legal arguments and principles and delivering a joint verdict in response to a scenario provided to them. This task will assess
content covered in Weeks 5-6.

Word Limit: 2000 words.

 
(3) ESSAY (55%)

Release Date: The Essay will be released at 12:00pm on Friday 4 June.

Due Date: The Essay must be submitted by 2:00pm on Friday 2 July.

Details: This exercise will require students to select one of series of provided essay questions pertaining to various topics explored throughout the course.

Word Limit: 3500 words.

1. Students must retain a copy of all assignments submitted.
2. All items of assessment must be submitted via 'TurnitIn' on MyUni. Details for electronic submission through Turnitin will be provided with the task instructions. By submitting your papers you are agreeing:
1. That all material in the assessment is your own work except where there is clear acknowledgement and reference to the work of others;
2. That you have read the Policy on Cheating in Examinations and Related Forms of Assessment and the University's Plagiarism Policy; and
3. To give permission for your assessment work to be reproduced and submitted to other academic staff for the purposes of assessment and to be copied, submitted and retained in a form suitable for electronic checking of plagiarism.
3. Late Submission: When an assignment is submitted after the due date, without an extension, 5% of the total mark possible will be deducted for every 24 hours or part thereof that it is late, including each day on a weekend and public holidays. For example, an assignment graded 63% will have 5% deducted if it is one hour late, for a final grade of 58%, 10% if it is 25 hours late, etc.
4. Word Length: 5% of the total mark possible for a written assessment will be deducted for every 100 words (or part thereof) by which it exceeds a stipulated word limit. For example, a 3,000-word assignment graded at 63% will have 5% deducted if it is between 3,001 and 3,100 words long for a final mark of 58%. If the assignment is between 3,101 and 3,200 words long, 10% will be deducted for a final mark of 53%. Word limits include all words in the text, in headings, in quotations, but excluding citations in footnotes. Any separate cover page, table of contents, bibliography or list of sources is excluded from the word limit. If the word limit is misstated, this may be regarded as academic misconduct.
5. Extensions: Requests for extensions must be made using the appropriate 'Assessment Task Extension' online form available at https://law.adelaide.edu.au/intranet/forms-downloads/assessment-task-extension. Extensions will be granted only for limited medical, compassionate or extenuating circumstances in accordance with University Policy.
6. Style of written work: All written work in the Law school is required to comply with the most recent edition of the approved Law School style guide, the Australian Guide to Legal Citation.
7. Turnaround time: All written works for this course will be returned to students within 3 weeks of the submission date. Individual feedback will be provided on each paper.

Finality of Assessment Grades

Students are advised that Course Coordinators will not enter into negotiations of any kind with any student regarding changes to their grades. It is irrelevant, in any given circumstance, that only a minimal number of additional marks are required to inflate a student’s grade for any individual assessment item or course as a whole. Pursuant to the University’s Assessment for Coursework Programs Policyand the Adelaide Law School Assessment Policies and Procedures, grades may only be varied through the appropriate channels for academic review (such as an official re-mark).

Moderation

In accordance with the University’s Assessment for Coursework Programs Policy, course coordinators ‘ensure that appropriate marking guidelines and cross-marking moderation processes across markers are in place’ in each course. Procedures adopted by Adelaide Law School to ensure consistency of marking in courses with multiple markers include:

• assurance of the qualifications of markers, and their knowledge of the content covered in each course;
• detailed marking guidelines and assessment rubrics to assist in the marking of items of assessment;
• sharing of example marked assessments at various grade bands across markers;
• reviewing of selected marked assessments from each marker by the course coordinator;
• comparison of the marks and their distribution across markers;
• automatic double-marking of all interim assessment receiving a fail grade, and of final assessments where a student’s overall result is a fail grade;
• the availability of re-marking of assessments in accordance with Adelaide Law School’s Assessment Policies and Procedures.

Approval of Results by Board of Examiners

Students are reminded that all assessment results are subject to approval (and possible moderation/change) by the Law School’s Board of Examiners. Assessment results at the University are not scaled. Under the Assessment for Coursework Programs Policy, students are assessed ‘by reference to their performance against pre-determined criteria and standards … and not by ranking against the performance of the student cohort in the course’. However, under that same policy, the Board of Examiners (as the relevant Assessment Review Committee for courses at Adelaide Law School) is required to ‘ensure comparability of standards and consistency’ in assessment. On occasions, the Board of Examiners will form the view that some moderation is required to ensure the comparability of standards and consistency across courses and years, and accordingly provide fairness to all law students. All assessment results are therefore subject to approval (and possible change) until confirmed by the Board of Examiners and posted on Access Adelaide at the end of each semester.

The University places a high priority on approaches to learning and teaching that enhance the student experience. Feedback is sought from students in a variety of ways including on-going engagement with staff, the use of online discussion boards and the use of Student Experience of Learning and Teaching (SELT) surveys as well as GOS surveys and Program reviews.

SELTs are an important source of information to inform individual teaching practice, decisions about teaching duties, and course and program curriculum design. They enable the University to assess how effectively its learning environments and teaching practices facilitate student engagement and learning outcomes. Under the current SELT Policy (http://www.adelaide.edu.au/policies/101/) course SELTs are mandated and must be conducted at the conclusion of each term/semester/trimester for every course offering. Feedback on issues raised through course SELT surveys is made available to enrolled students through various resources (e.g. MyUni). In addition aggregated course SELT data is available.

The University Writing Centre provides academic learning and language development services and resources for local, international, undergraduate and postgraduate coursework students enrolled at the University of Adelaide.

The centre offers practical advice and strategies for students to master reading, writing, note-taking, time management, oral presentation skills, referencing techniques and exam preparation for success at university through seminars, workshops and individual consultations.

Lex Salus Program

Lex Salus (law and wellbeing) is an initiative of the Adelaide Law School aimed at destigmatising mental health issues; promoting physical, mental and emotional wellness; building a strong community of staff and students; and celebrating diversity within the school. It also seeks to promote wellness within the legal profession, through the involvement of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia, the Honourable Chris Kourakis, as the official Patron of the program.

Students can participate in the Lex Salus program by attending barbecue lunches, pancake breakfasts, knitting and crochet circles, seminars, guest speakers, conferences and other activities. Our Facebook page, website and regular all-student emails promote upcoming events, and have tips and information on wellness.

Our Lex Salus YouTube channel also includes videos on topics like managing stress, and interviews with LGBTQ lawyers and their supporters which celebrate diversity and individuality. Students who commit to 10 hours of volunteering with Lex Salus in one year can have their service recognised on their academic transcript and through a thank you morning tea with the Chief Justice and law school staff.

Student Life Counselling Support

The University’s Student Life Counselling Support service provides free and confidential service to all enrolled students. We encourage you to contact the Student Life Counselling Support service on 8313 5663 to make an appointment to deal with any issues that may be affecting your study and life.

Academic Integrity

All students must be familiar with the University’s Academic Integrity Policy. Academic Misconduct is a serious matter and is treated as such by the Law School and the University. Academic Misconduct (which goes beyond plagiarism) can be a ground for a refusal by the Supreme Court of South  Australia to admit a person to practice as a legal practitioner in South Australia. Academic Integrity is an essential aspect of ethical and honest  behaviour, which is central to the practice of the law and an understanding of what it is to be a lawyer.