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Drawing on the expertise of leading academics and practitioners,
this Research Handbook provides comprehensive analysis of the EU's
involvement in sport. Structured around the key themes used by the
EU Commission in the field of sport, namely sport in society, the
economic dimension of sport and the organization of sport, this
Research Handbook is the definitive assessment of modern EU sports
law and policy. The initial contributions explore the origins and
sources of EU sports law and policy to provide context, while the
remaining chapters address the Commission's key themes.
Contributors explore the key cases shaping EU sports law, such as
Walrave, Bosman and Meca-Medina, whilst also assessing the key
contemporary issues concerning the relationship between sport and
the EU. Demonstrating how and why sport can make a difference to
the socio-economic well-being of the EU, this Research Handbook
will be stimulating reading for sports lawyers and administrators
as well as students of sports law, sports policy and sports
business, and politicians and civil servants in this sector.
Contributors include: J. Anderson, W. Andreff, S. Boyes, A.
Cattaneo, J.-L. Chappelet, C. Coors, N. De Marco, M. de Wolff, B.
Garcia, J. Kornbeck, S. O'Conaill, L. O'Leary, R. Parrish, N.
Partington, K. Pijetlovic, S. Schenk, E. Szyszczak, A. Tsoukala, S.
Van den Bogaert, A. Vermeersch, S. Weatherill
The Sporting Exception in European Union Law is the definitive
account of EU sports law. It provides a modern legal framework
based on an analysis of major European Court of Justice judgments
including Walrave (1974), Don... (1976), Bosman (1995), Deliege
(2000), Lehtonen (2000), Kolpak (2003), Piau (2005) and Meca-Medina
(2006). It also provides advanced commentary on the major
sports-related competition decisions of the European Commission.
Broadcasting issues, rules affecting player mobility and issues of
sports governance are analysed, as are current issues in EU sports
law including the Oulmers case, home-grown players, players'
agents, the Services Directive, the Audiovisual Media Services
Directive, the 2006 Independent European Sports Review, the 2007
Commission White Paper on Sport, the Reform Treaty and prospects
for social dialogue. The work is a resource for academics, lawyers
and sports administrators and students of sports law and EU law
programmes.
With a Foreword by Dr Michal Krejza, Head of Sport Unit,
Directorate-General for Education and Culture, European Commission,
Brussels Much has changed since the publication of Professional
Sport in the EU: Regulation and Re-regulation (edited by Andrew
Caiger and Simon Gardiner, The Hague, T.M.C. Asser Press 2000). The
present book explores new territory and its scope and tone reflect
the maturity of the discipline of EU sports law and policy. The
book seeks to balance contributions from established authorities
and the best of the new generation of sports law and policy
academics. New theoretical insights are revealed which accompany in
particular two further sections dealing first with governance and
regulatory issues (also including freedom of movement and
competition law issues) and second with questions of
representation. The issue of the representation of stakeholders
within sports governance structures (Social Dialogue between
employers/clubs and employees/players) is arguably the most
significant development in the last decade and the inclusion of the
word 'Representation' in the title is merited. Contributions on
anti-doping, football hooliganism and sports betting are added to
the book. The editing team consisted of Simon Gardiner, Leeds
Metropolitan University, United Kingdom, Richard Parrish, Edge Hill
University, Ormskirk, United Kingdom, and Robert Siekmann, ASSER
International Sports Law Centre, The Hague, The Netherlands. This
book appears in the ASSER International Sports Law Series, under
the editorship of Robert Siekmann and Janwillem Soek.
With a Foreword by Roger Blanpain, Professor in Labour Law,
Universities of Leuven (Belgium) and Tilburg (The Netherlands) and
co-founder and first President of FIFPro. Publicly, at least, there
appears to be a strong collective will within football to clean up
the game, to make the work of players' agents more transparent and
to allow a greater share of the game's profits to stay within the
game. Privately, there seems to be unease that current agent
regulation is out of step with football industry norms and that if
the sector is to operate effectively, practices which are
prohibited by the rules should in fact be tolerated. Here lies the
problem. Stringent agent regulation may well look impressive but
over-regulation will merely compound the problem of non-compliance
and a lack of transparency. Finding the balance which not only
addresses the problems facing football and satisfies the supporters
and other interested stakeholders but which also satisfies the
requirements of national, EU and international law is just one of
the many challenges facing football's governing bodies. What are
players' agents? Why should they be regulated? How should they be
regulated? These three apparently simple questions have been
tackled throughout this book. The first question appears
straightforward as agents perform similar functions throughout the
world. However, as the contributions in the book reveal, the manner
in which agents operate varies. The questions of why and how to
regulate again reveals common themes but also considerable
variations in patterns of regulation. In this connection, there
are, in effect, three tiers of agent regulation: international law,
national law and the law of the sports associations. This book
covers the legal regulations governing players' agents in forty
countries around the world, representing the major footballing
constituencies including Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Russia as
well as the "Big Five" in Europe. Written by acknowledged experts,
it provides a very useful and informative comparative survey.
Indeed, this is a book, which all those involved in the
administration of football clubs, particularly, coaches and
managers, as well as players' agents themselves, and commercial,
financial and legal advisers, can do hardly do without, as it will
provide them with a constant and useful source of reference.
The increasing commercialization of sport raises important
questions concerning regulation. The development of the European
Union and the internationalization of sporting competition has
added an international dimension to this debate. Yet sport is not
only a business, it is a social and cultural activity. Can
regulation at the EU level reconcile this tension? Adopting a
distinctive legal and political analysis, this book argues that the
EU is receptive to the claim of sport for special treatment before
the law.
Even believers sometimes have doubts. Many followers have issues of
faith at some point in their spiritual journeys. Some are content
to ignore those questions, and eventually, their faith may wane.
Even those who don't leave their churches do not have the spiritual
lives they could have. Others, however, look to discover the
reasons behind their doubts or other concerns and become stronger
in their faith. In Hope for the Journey: Reflections of God's
Faithfulness, author Richard Parrish MDiv helps believers work
through their faith issues. Sometimes that requires a major
overhaul of who we believe God to be. Through this devotional,
Parrish shows us how to adopt a different view of the Deity and
become closer to God, to know God, and not just in the religious
sense. Questions for reflection help you think deeply about and
internalize what you've read.
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