Professional Sport in the EU: Regulation and Re-Regulation
This book comes at a critical time for the future development of sports law. Sport is becoming increasingly commercialised, but its regulation is fragmentary and it is difficult to delineate issues of pure sport and issues of business. In this volume, eminent sports law scholars examine the relationship between sport, business and policy. They analyze how law regulates sport and sports business and demonstrate the need to redefine the frontier between 'Sporting' rules and regulations and...
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Examines the relationship between sport, business and policy and analyzes how law regulates sport and sports business.
Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: re-regulating professional sport in the European Union Andrew Caiger and Simon Gardiner; In the footsteps of Bosman: an interview with Jean-Louis Dupont - the man who lit the fuse under European sport; Part I. Theoretical and Policy Perspectives: Reconciling conflicting approaches to sport in the European Union Richard Parrish; Can sport be regulated by Europe?: an analysis of alternative models Ken Foster; Globalisation, Europe and the re-regulation of sport Simon Boyes; Part II. The Frontiers of Regulatory Mechanisms: The legal autonomy of sport organisations and the restrictions of European law Klaus Vieweg; 'Show me the money': regulation of the migration of professional sportsmen in post-Bosman Europe Simon Gardiner and Roger Welch; National eligibility rules after Bosman J. Paul McCutcheon; Selling your sole: e-Europe, EU law and sports marketing Laura Edgar and David McArdle; Part III. The Re-regulation of Football: A Quest for Order: The battle for TV rights in professional football Paul Spink and Philip Morris; The end of the affair: the 'Anelka Doctrine' - the problem of contract stability in English professional football Andrew Caiger and John O'Leary; The effectiveness of the corporate form as a regulatory tool in European sport: real or illusory? Tom Mortimer and Ian Pearl; Part IV. Comparative Perspectives: Localisation and Specificity: Legislation on sports in Poland Andrzej J. Szwarc; The regulation of sports activities in Greece Dimitrios Panagiotopoulos and Gregory Ioannidis; The approach to sports policy in Belgium Luc Silance; Regulation of the sportsleagues, teams, athletes and agents in the United States James T. Gray; Postscript: Legal intervention and the possibility of enlightened governance Andrew Caiger and Simon Gardiner; Appendix: The balance between the game and the money: study commissioned by the Netherlands' ministry of health, welfare and sport (sports directorate); Contributors; Table of cases; Index.
