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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

SM 4000 - Legal Issues and Governance in Sport

(3)
A presentation of the basic legal system, its terminology, and principles as applied to professional and amateur sports. Governance in sport and sports organizations will be described and integrated with legal issues. Emphasis is on identifying and analyzing legal and governance issues, the ramifications of those issues, and the means of limiting the liability of sport organizations.

Prerequisite: SM 2500 .