Sports Law

Long established as the market leading textbook on sports law, this much-anticipated new edition offers a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the legal issues surrounding and governing sport internationally. Locating the legal regulation of sport within an explicit socio-economic context, this refocused edition is divided into four core parts: Governance & Sport; Commercial Regulation; Sports Workplace; and Safety in Sport.

Simon Gardiner, John O'Leary, Roger Welch, Simon Boyes, Urvasi Naidoo

CULTURAL, HISTORICAL AND ORGANISATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON UK REGULATION OF SPORT; THEORETICAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE REGULATION OF SPORT; THE LEGAL REGULATION OF SPORTS GOVERNING BODIES; SPORT AND THE LAW OF THE EUROPEAN UNION; SPORT AND MONEY: ACCOUNTABILITY AND REGULATION; SPORT, MATCH FIXING AND CORRUPTION; THE EXPLOITATION AND PROTECTION OF OLYMPIC COMMERCIAL RIGHTS; THE REGULATION OF DOPING IN SPORT; SPORT AND CONTRACTS OF EMPLOYMENT; SPORTS PARTICIPANTS AND THE LAW OF DISCRIMINATION; SAFETY AND PARTICIPANTS IN SPORT; SPORTS VENUES AND THE LAW