Content
- Lectures: 30 hours
- Independent work: 60 hours
Subject carrier
Description
1. INTRODUCTION
a. The concept and basic features of law
b. Law, society and the state.
c. Basic principles of law (rule of law, welfare state, basic freedoms and entitlements, children’s rights).
2. ORGANISATIONAL LAW
a. Legal forms of organisations
b. Internal organisation of instututes and companies
c. Organisation as employer – basics of labour law
d. Occupational health and safety and applied kinesiology
3. LEGAL ASPECTS OF DECISIONMAKING AND GOVERNANCE
a. The concept and importance of competence and responsibility
b. Types of responsibility
c. Rules of the profession and codes of ethics
4. ENTITLEMENTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES FROM CONTRACTS
a. Basic principles of contract law
b. Athletes ‘rights and obligations under the athlete’ s contract with clubs, sport associations, sponsors (club changes, injuries, compensation, sponsorship, scholarships, awards, communication of athletes in public – use of logos and symbols).
5. HUMAN RIGHTS
a. Children rights
b. Patient’s rights
c. Protection of privacy and personal rights
d. Personal data protection
6. SHORT INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS IN SPORTS
a. The meaning and origins of ethics
b. Ethical methodology
c. Basic ethical paradigms
d. Moral motivation
e. Sport as a philosophical problem
7. JUSTICE AND FAIRNESS IN SPORTS
a. The question of fair play and heroicism in sports
b. (Un)acceptability of doping
c. Talentocracy in sports (the question of handicap)
d. The role of technology and technological superiority in fairness
e. The injustice of match fixing and purposeful losing
8. SPORTS AS AN EXERCISE IN MORALITY
a. Sports and the development of moral character (asceticism, mutuality and cooperation, moderation)
b. Sport as a technique of sublimation (sports as ‘war without shooting’)
c. The role of movement and kinesiology in education
d. The role of the body in ethics
e. The role-model function of stardom and sport as a religion; ethics of cheerleading and supporting
9. ONTOLOGY OF SPORT
a. The difference between ‘play’ and ‘reality’ (the seriousness of sport)
b. What is sport? – functionalist, formalist, convetionalist and mutualist approaches in understanding the phenomenon of sports.
