A turnkey Sports Law unit for your institution
A comprehensive Sports Law course designed and taught by a practising sports lawyer with significant academic experience — complete with video lectures, live interactive tutorials, assessments, and a purpose-built student platform — available for your university today.
5 modules, 10–15 video lectures, 6 live interactive tutorials, assessments, and supporting materials — fully developed and ready to deliver from day one.
Students access a professional, branded portal with embedded video lectures, structured tutorial materials, weekly progression, and intuitive navigation.
Your branding, your trimester dates, your assessment weightings. The core content is universal; the wrapper is yours.
Why Sports Law?
Sports law sits at the intersection of legal practice, commercial strategy, and cultural significance. It delivers proven student demand and genuine institutional value.
A distinctive elective that strengthens your law program and attracts students across disciplines.
This course is consistently oversubscribed, reaching full enrolment across both undergraduate and JD cohorts. Sports law is not a niche offering — it is a reliable, high-demand elective.
A dynamic, industry-connected course enhances your university's reputation in both legal education and the broader sports sector — positioning your institution as forward-thinking and practice-oriented.
Sports law intersects with business, ethics, media, and health — making it attractive to students well beyond the law school and opening pathways for cross-faculty engagement.
Australian legal education is being reshaped. The LPAB's Interim Report has found the current PLT framework no longer fit for purpose, and LACC is now reviewing PLT competencies and accreditation nationally. This course is already built around the model regulators are moving toward: real documents, real problems, and the practical competencies the profession demands.
A subject that connects personal passion with professional development in ways few other electives can.
Sport is culturally resonant and emotionally engaging. For many students, it offers a meaningful way to connect personal interests to professional aspirations in law.
Sports law intersects with human rights, gender equity, and anti-discrimination — giving students a platform for engaging with systemic issues in high-visibility environments.
The sports law sector is growing, with increasing demand for legal professionals across clubs, leagues, agencies, governing bodies, and regulatory organisations.
One subject, many areas of law — employment and industrial relations, intellectual property, immigration, competition law, tort, and contract. Sports law gives students a practical lens on doctrines they encounter across the degree.
The Course
Six modules covering the essential pillars of sports law — from governance and dispute resolution through to athlete contracts, sports integrity, and the commercialisation of sports rights. Each module pairs video lectures with live tutorials where students apply the theory to real-world problems.
Course orientation — meet your lecturer, understand how the course works, explore what a sports lawyer does, and the key themes and tensions in sports law.
How is sport governed, how do sporting organisations shape the legal landscape, and what are the sources of sports law?
How athletes and participants challenge disciplinary outcomes, dispute processes, and tribunal decisions.
Player contracting, athlete representation and agency, and the power dynamics between athletes and organisations.
Clean sport and illicit drugs, anti-corruption and gambling, and the regulation of high risk sport and permitted harm.
From right to contract, sports media rights and broadcasting, and sports sponsorship and reputation.
See It In Action
The best way to understand what your students will experience is to see it for yourself. Browse the live demo — navigate the modules, watch lecture previews, explore the tutorial programme, and see how the assessment framework is presented. Everything you see is what your students receive.
Explore the Demo →Teaching Philosophy
This isn't a course that simply talks about sports law in the abstract. Video lectures deliver the core doctrine and legal frameworks, while live interactive tutorials are where students put that knowledge to work — analysing real documents, debating real scenarios, and developing the practical skills that employers value. The course is designed and taught by a practitioner with significant academic experience, and this practice-first philosophy runs through every element.
Ahead of the curve: Australian legal education is being reshaped. The NSW Legal Profession Admission Board's Interim Report has found the current PLT framework no longer fit for purpose, and LACC is now reviewing PLT competencies, accreditation and quality nationally — with other states and territories expected to follow. This course is already built around the model regulators are moving toward: real documents, real problems, and the practical competencies the profession demands.
Credentials
Taught by a practicing sports lawyer, with significant academic experience.
Michael Bricknell is a practising sports, media and entertainment lawyer and university lecturer who brings real-world legal experience directly into the classroom. Originally from Brisbane and now based in Sydney, Michael holds a Juris Doctor from UNSW and a Bachelor of Economics & Business Management from the University of Queensland.
As Vice President & Counsel at TKO/IMG, Michael advises on some of the largest and most complex commercial arrangements in international sport. Previously, Michael held legal counsel roles at the NRL and Rugby Australia, working at the heart of two of Australia's major professional sporting organisations on integrity, governance, player contracting, and commercial arrangements (including sponsorship, broadcast and licensing).
His career spans the full spectrum of the sports industry — from the governing bodies responsible for the rules of the game, through to global companies that commercialise sporting rights on a worldwide scale.
Michael has over eight years' experience designing, coordinating and lecturing sports law subjects at the university level, and a further eight-plus years teaching contract law. His approach to teaching reflects his background as a practitioner: the course is built around the kinds of legal problems that actually arise in the sports industry.
Teaching
How It Works
Your institution engages Michael for a trimester as a contractor (preferred) or casual academic. We tailor dates, assessment weightings, and branding to suit your program.
There are two delivery options. The preferred model is a dual-platform approach: students access lectures, tutorial materials, and course resources through a branded portal at thelawofsport.com, while your eLearning system handles everything else. Alternatively, all content can be built directly within your university's own platform.
Grades, submissions, extensions, student records, and university policies all remain within your eLearning portal. Nothing sensitive sits on an external site — your systems handle what they're designed to handle.
Ready to get started?
Whether you're exploring a new elective, expanding your law program, or looking for a practice-ready course that students will genuinely enjoy — I'd love to hear from you. No commitment, just a conversation.