Full Description
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.
Contents
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
