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. Recent developments covered in this edition include: EU competition law interaction with sport under arts. 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union; the current World Anti-Doping Agency code; analysis of the recent Court of Arbitration for Sport Jurisprudence; reforms of the transfer system in team sports; anti-discrimination provisions in sport; engagement with match fixing; a focus on the legal context of 2012 London Olympics.
Essential reading for students studying sports law or sports-related courses, this textbook will also prove useful to sports law practitioners and sports administrators in need of a clear companion to the field.

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