Sports Law / Edition 4

by Simon Gardiner, Roger Welch, Simon Boyes, Urvasi Naidoo

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415591843
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/07/2011
Edition description:	4th ed.
Pages:	656
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Praise for previous edition;

'This interesting book is a good introduction to the background material to sports law. The variety of sources means that it is both interesting and value for money'
The Journal, Law Society of Scotland.

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