This course explores various legal issues affecting the collegiate and professional sports industries with focuses on antitrust, labor, contracts, regulation of private associations, regulation of athlete agents, intellectual property, and sports broadcasting issues. This course will explore the intersection of legal and business issues that professional sports leagues and their member clubs encounter and their practical implications. Using contemporary sports ownership and executive experience, the course will examine the tensions between the business objectives of the league, its clubs, players, sponsors and fans as well as the developing legal precedents that govern these relationships.