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

Part 1 The Regulation and Governance of Sport; Chapter 1 Cultural, Historical and Organisational Perspectives on UK Regulation of Sport; Chapter 2 Theoretical Understanding of the Regulation of Sport; Chapter 3 The Legal Regulation of Sports Governing Bodies; Chapter 4 Sport and the Law of the European Union; Part 2 Legal Protection of the Commercial Integrity of Sport; Chapter 5 Sport and Money: Accountability and Regulation; Chapter 6 Sport, Match Fixing and Corruption; Chapter 7 The Exploitation and Protection of Olympic Commercial Rights; Part 3 Legal Issues in the Sports Workplace; Chapter 8 The Regulation of Doping in Sport; Chapter 9 Sport and Contracts of Employment; Chapter 10 Sports Participants and the Law of Discrimination; Chapter 11 Safety and Participants in Sport; Chapter 12 Sports Venues and the Law;