Sports Lawpart time degree programmes for professionals

  • Master of Laws

    Master
    Degree

  • 4 semesters

    Standard period of study (amount)

  • Gießen

    Location

  • expired (Germans and inhabitants)

    expired (EU), expired (Non-EU)
    Please enquire

Overview and admission

Study Type

graduate

Admission semester

Summer and Winter Semester

Area of study

Jurisprudence, Legal

Focus

Organisational Principles of Sport (including association law, issues concerning sports institutions, arbitration and international sports law), Economic Dimensions of Sport (including employment law, marketing, liability in sport, promotion of sport), Social Challenges within Sport (including doping and its penalties, criminal law in sport, issues ensuing from public law, tax law)

Target group

Fully qualified lawyers following the second Staatsexamen (state examination) as well as certified law candidates with one year of legal professional experience or judicial service training.

Annotation

The postgraduate Master's degree course in Sports Law is offered in cooperation between the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen and the Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln, German Sport University Cologne). Teaching takes place at both universities in equal parts. The final degree is awarded by both higher education institutions. Enrolment is at the University of Gießen.

Admission modus

Without admission restriction

Admission requirements

A prerequisite for admission is proof of the second Staatsexamen (state examination) or the first Staatsexamen with one year of professional experience/post-graduate civil service.

Lecture period
  • 15.04.2024 - 19.07.2024
  • 14.10.2024 - 14.02.2025

Application deadlines

Summer semester (2024)
  • Application deadline for Germans and inhabitants

    Expired (Universitywide deadline)

    Information: www.uni-giessen.de/studium/bewerbung For advanced education masters, different deadlines will apply, see http://www.uni-giessen.de/studium/bewerbung/ergaenzung_aufbau

  • Deadlines for International Students from the European Union

    Expired (Universitywide deadline)

  • Deadlines for international students from countries that are not members of the European Union

    Expired (Universitywide deadline)

    Information: www.uni-giessen.de/studium/bewerbung

  • Enrollment deadline for Germans and foreign students

    Expired (Universitywide deadline)

    Information: www.uni-giessen.de/studium/bewerbung For advanced education masters, different deadlines will apply, see http://www.uni-giessen.de/studium/bewerbung/ergaenzung_aufbau

Winter semester (2024/2025)
  • Application deadline for Germans and inhabitants

    Expired (Universitywide deadline)

    For advanced education masters, different deadlines will apply, see http://www.uni-giessen.de/cms/studium/bewerbung/ergaenzung_aufbau

  • Deadlines for International Students from the European Union

    Expired (Universitywide deadline)

  • Deadlines for international students from countries that are not members of the European Union

    Expired (Universitywide deadline)

  • Enrollment deadline for Germans and foreign students

    Expired (Universitywide deadline)

    in accordance with the letter of acceptance

Languages of instruction

Main language

German

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