Sports Law

by JohnO'Leary (Author), SimonGardiner (Author), RogerWelch (Author), SimonBoyes (Author), UrvasiNaidoo (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2011

  $186.80

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $3.25

  Provides an examination of sports and law issues within the socio-economic and cultural context of the role that sport plays in society. The text reflects the growth and importance of sports law as a distinct area of legal inquiry. Each chapter has an introductory section on the basic legal principles of each particular area, such as employment law and the specialist nature of athletes' contractual position and, in the section on sports field violence, basic principles of criminal law and the civial law of tort. Extracts of the relevant primary and secondary source material are included. In addition, a case study is provided to illustrate the particular area under discussion.

• New

  Paperback
  2011

  $68.13

  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.