Sports Law

<p>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.</p><p>Recent developments covered in this edition include:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>EU competition law interaction with sport under arts. 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;</li> <p> </p> <li>the current World Anti-Doping Agency code;</li> <p> </p> <li>analysis of the recent Court of Arbitration for Sport Jurisprudence;</li> <p> </p> <li>reforms of the transfer system in team sports;</li> <p> </p> <li>anti-discrimination provisions in sport;</li> <p> </p> <li>engagement with match fixing;</li> <p> </p> <li>a focus on the legal context of 2012 London Olympics.</li> </ul><p>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.</p> <p>CULTURAL, HISTORICAL AND ORGANISATIONAL PERSPECTIVES<br>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</p>