KNES 456: Legal & Ethical Issues in Sport

A comprehensive reference work bringing both sports management and sports marketing all together in one place.
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This revised edition "provides a comprehensive review of the various sports law issues facing professional, intercollegiate, Olympic, high school, youth, and adult recreational sports. Major topics include tort liability, contracts/waivers, antitrust law, labor law, constitutional law, gender discrimination, drug testing, intellectual property law, broadcasting laws pertaining to sports agents, business and employment law, Internet gambling, and athletes with disabilities. Significant additions here include new court decisions, agreements (contracts and collective bargaining agreements), and legislation (federal, state, association, and institutional rules and regulations). Discussions of legal concepts are supplemented with summaries and excerpts from hundreds of actual sports cases."
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Provides information on more than 5,000 legal topics, including articles covering important issues, biographies, definitions of legal terms and more.

This encyclopedia, with almost 900 entries, addresses the normative dimensions of commerce. The themes examined include: applied ethics; corporate powers, organization, and governance; corporations in the social sphere; customers and consumers; environmental thought, theory, regulation, and legislation; gender, age, ethnicity, diversity, and sexual orientation; information systems and many others.