Staying resolutely off topic, "Law" has the scope, depth and difficulty to be a degree subject worthy of 4 years intensive study and examinations.
"Sports Law", as I suspect the University defines it, has none of these attributes, and to claim that a degree is "Sports Law" is as valid a degree in "Law" (which is what you are implying) is absurd, to say nothing of being an insult to those has have actually worked their little behinds off for 4 years to get a Degree in Law.
There is no such thing as "Sports Law". There is law applied to sporting activities, but it is the same law as applies everywhere else. There are presumably cases concerning sporting activities which are used as precedents, and I suspect that studying Sports Law involves little more than boning up on those.
It's rather like equating a Degree in Car Maintenance (yes, there is one!) with a Degree in Engineering.
The fact that there are firms specialising in Sports Law does not mean that its a Degree subject.
A look at those sites merely confirms that Sports Law is a phrase used by lawyers to promote a speciality that does not exist by raising fears about it. Searching for the unique expertise of a Sport Lawyer, I could only find references to negotiations between football clubs and cheating in sumo wrestling.
Last edited by Capot; 9th Apr 2010 at 13:33.