Sports Law

This text provides an introduction to key topics of law specific to sports, comparing approaches to sports law across the globe, with focus on the United States, Europe, and common law jurisdictions.

This text deals with international and national sports law over three parts, international, regional and national. The countries currently covered: Bulgaria, Hellas, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom.

This text is a introductory overview of the legal issues, principles, and case law relevant to careers in sports and recreation services from amateur and professional sports, to municipal and private recreation programs, recreational therapy, and more.

This book presents a Canadian perspective with a broad range of principles, issues, and cases, along with providing the practical application of essential legal theory in the sport context.

Covers sports law and practice in the UK, and at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. It serves both as a comprehensive statement of applicable law and precedent, and as a very practical guide to circumnavigating a complex sector.

Anderson explains how law has become important to all aspects of sport, including participation, administration and the resolution of disputes. Crossing legal jurisdictions and sporting codes, it covers issues ranging from ambush marketing to broadcasting, corruption and doping. Analysing the broad range of actors and stakeholders involved in sport, this concise introduction illustrates how sports law, once the folly of contract law, now engages criminal, competition and international human rights law.