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.

Long established as the market leading textbook on sports law, this much-anticipated new edition continues to offer a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the legal issues surrounding and governing sport. Alert to the role that sport plays within society throughout, this refocused edition is divided into three core sections: 'Sport, Regulation and Governance', 'Regulation of Commercial Interests in Sport', 'Regulation of the Sports Workplace'.

Recent developments covered in this edition include:

• the greater competency of EU law interaction with sport under arts 149 TFEU
• the new World Anti-Doping Agency code
• analysis of recent Court of Arbitration for Sport jurisprudence
• the increasing occurrence of ADR mechanisms in resolving sporting disputes
• the ongoing impact of the Human Rights Act 1998
• the reform of the transfer system in team sports
• engagement with corruption in sport including match fixing
• anti-discrimination provisions in sport
• greater recourse to law for participant violence
• a focus on the 2012 London Olympics and the protection of commercial rights.

Essential reading for students studying sports law, this textbook will also prove useful to sports law practitioners, sports administrators and students on other sports-related courses.

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.

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this practical analysis of sports law in the United Kingdom deals with the regulation of sports activity by both public authorities and private sports organizations. The growing internationalization of sports inevitably increases the weight of global regulation, yet each country maintains its own distinct regime of sports law and its own national and local sports organizations. Sports law at a national or organizational level thus gains a growing relevance in comparative law.