International Sports Law Academy (ISLA)
Objectives & Mission
- Establish sports law education with a recognised qualification behind it
- Give practitioners somewhere to build expertise over time
- Train the specialists FISLA’s own committees and ICSAM will need
- Make high-quality sports law training available beyond a handful of major cities
- Draw faculty from practising lawyers as well as academics
- Build a credential that carries weight with employers and clients
Areas of Activity
- Designing and delivering certificate, diploma and executive education programmes in sports law
- Building curricula jointly with the Education, Research & Sports Law Doctrine Committee
- Maintaining a faculty of accredited international lecturers and practitioners
- Delivering in-house training for federations, clubs, tribunals and law firms
- Running summer schools, moot court preparation and continuing professional development
- Issuing certificates and professional credentials in the Federation’s name
Committee Overview
International Sports Law Academy
ISLA is the Federation’s training arm, and the place to acquire a full qualification in sports law. It runs certificate and diploma programmes, executive courses for practitioners already in the field, and in-house training for federations and law firms whose needs have outgrown general legal education.
Its faculty is drawn largely from practitioners, on the view that those best placed to teach sports law are the people currently working in it. The credentials it issues are designed to travel, and are recognised wherever FISLA has a presence.
