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Cross-Branch Capstone Files: One Sports Dispute, Every Branch of Law

Law school exercises where students solve one sports dispute using several different types of law.

A library of final-year capstone exercises in which students must resolve a single sports dispute — a doping appeal, a transfer clash — by simultaneously applying labor, contract, administrative, and criminal law, making cross-branch integration the assessed skill.

Social SciencesLegal Education and Practice Innovations
Urban Stormwater and Fluid ManagementLaw school capstone courses and bar-association junior training

Concept

A library of ready-made capstone case files for final-year law students and junior-lawyer training. Each file presents one realistic sports dispute — a doping sanction appeal, a transfer-window contract conflict, a federation disciplinary proceeding — that cannot be resolved inside any single legal branch. Students must identify and coordinate the labor-law, contract-law, administrative-law, and criminal-law dimensions and produce one integrated written resolution. Files include the relevant statutes and regulations per branch, a rubric that scores integration (not just per-branch correctness), and a model resolution. The single wedge: ordinary law teaching is siloed by branch; these files turn the unified view of the legal order into an assessable exercise, usable even in faculties without a full sports law course.

Why now

The new paper [0] argues that sports law's distinctive pedagogical value lies precisely in its interdisciplinary content, which 'ejercita en la visión unitaria del Ordenamiento' — exercises a unified vision of the legal order — and presents this as a core reason the subject belongs in law degrees. That claim is currently embodied only in a single institution's curriculum; the capstone files convert it into a portable, assessable product for any faculty or bar-association training program.

Written by GLM · 14 Oct 2026

AI assessment

Backed by 1 paper77

A niche pedagogical tool that converts a theoretical academic argument into a practical assessment product, though it faces significant scalability hurdles due to its high-touch content nature.

Evidence strength
4/5
The idea directly operationalizes the specific claim in the provided text that sports law's value lies in exercising a 'unified vision of the legal order' through interdisciplinarity.
Market pull
3/5
While law schools and bar associations have a need for capstone materials, the buyer pool for a specialized sports-law-centric integration tool is relatively small compared to general legal education.
Novelty & moat
3/5
It is a distinct evolution of the 'Sports Law Launchpad' (which is a full course) by focusing specifically on the cross-branch integration assessment, filling a gap in how interdisciplinarity is tested.
Feasibility
5/5
The MVP is simply a set of well-drafted case files and rubrics, requiring legal expertise rather than complex technical infrastructure.
Wedge clarity
4/5
The 'cross-branch integration' assessment is a sharp, specific entry point that solves a concrete pedagogical problem (siloed teaching).
Simplicity / focus
5/5
The product is a single, focused library of case files with a clear purpose and no unnecessary platform bloat.

Scored by Gemma 4 · 14 Oct 2026. Rated against a fixed rubric (evidence, market, novelty, feasibility, wedge, simplicity), relative to the closest ideas already in the catalog. A prior estimate to compare ideas before real-world signal arrives.

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  1. Cultura, Ciencia y Deporte
    Eloísa Lorente Catalán, Ana Flávia Leão Pereira, David Castel Vilalta et al. · 2026 · 98 citations
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