The Routledge Handbook on Sports Law and Governance

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-59897-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 434 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

The Routledge Handbook on Sports Law and Governance provides a definitive guide to the regulation of international and national sport through the lens of both regulatory, governance and legal frameworks.

Over the past several decades, law, regulation and governance associated with international and national sport has grown exponentially, aligned with professional and elite level sport development. The organisation and sophistication of international and national sporting competitions create an environment where pressures such as the sports ethic and strong incentives to win give rise to both novel problems and reoccurring themes. Exploring a wide range of perspectives across disciplines and transcending jurisdictional boundaries, the handbook analyses complex international and national sports challenges. Taking a nuanced approach to traditional themes, it recognises the context and sport as a regulatory domain when applying law and legal frameworks.

This book is an essential resource for students and academics exploring issues in international and national sports law, sports regulation and sports governance.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Greenhow, Annette

Wolohan, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sport- und Veranstaltungsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Wirtschaftsverwaltungsrecht / Öffentliches Wirtschaftsrecht Sport- und Veranstaltungsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Sport in the 21st Century - A Complex, Evolving and Challenging Landscape by Annette Greenhow and John Wolohan

 

PART I: Regulatory Models and Governance Systems

 

1. The IOC and Olympic Law: Scoping the Regulatory Space of the IOC

2. Sports governance and the rule of law

3. Who’s running the play? The role of the European Union in Sports Regulations

4. The NCAA Amateurism Model and its recent decline

5. Deterring Regulation Through the Threat of the Sportspocalypse

6. The regulation of sports agents

7. The Legal, Ethical, and Moral Questions Surrounding the Role of a League Commissioner

 

PART II: Regulating Integrity and Governance Failures

 

8. Sport Corruption

9. Regulating Doping: The USADA Model

10. When ‘Legally good Enough” is not Enough: Non-Disclosure Agreements and the Hockey Canada Governance Crisis

11. Governing Sports Federations: Debates in Japan and their International Dimensions

12. Sports Gambling

 

PART III: Regulating Sport Equity, Access and Safety

 

13. An Analysis of the Equal Pay Debates in Women’s Football

14. Gender, Sport Regulation and Law

15. Anti-racism regulatory framework in international sport governance bodies

16. Safeguarding vulnerable participants in sport

17. Regulating dangerous sports

18. Club doctors and concussion injury management: A cross-jurisdictional review of conflicts of interest in professional football

 

PART IV: Regulating Disputes

 

19. Judicial precedent and Lex Sportiva: In search of harmonisation, consistency and legal certainty

20. The Regulatory Space of Arbitration in Baseball

21. Applicable law for football disputes in the Court of Arbitration for Sport and a Review of Chinese Football cases

22. Sports Law in New Zealand – A central role in the Nation’s Economy and Regulation 

 

Conclusion: Future Directions

Über Autor(innen)

Annette Greenhow is a legal academic from the Faculty of Law, Bond University. Since 2010, Annette has researched the area of sports-related concussion, examining the regulatory, governance and policy-making roles of state and non-state actors. Annette holds a PhD from Monash University investigating the regulation of concussion in Australian sport, a Master of Laws (Bond) and Bachelor of Laws (QUT). As an Australian legal practitioner, Annette held senior management positions in small, medium and large firms over an extensive legal practice career. She is a Committee Member of the Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Association Inc. and Editor of the Bond University Sports Law and Governance Journal.

John Wolohan is a professor of Sports Law in the Syracuse University Falk College of Sport and a Professor of Law by courtesy appointment in the College of Law at Syracuse University. Professor Wolohan has been teaching and working in the fields of sports law, gaming law and sports media rights for over 25 years. In addition to making numerous national and international presentations, Professor Wolohan has edited and authored several books on sports-related topics.