Description
This book examines the intersection of professional tennis and legal regulation, unveiling a fascinating world where tennis meets domestic, international and transnational law, and showing the many ways these legal frameworks impact tennis. Filled with firsthand accounts of the legal landscape and its implication on tennis, the work provides an accessible, engaging portrait of the tennis ecosystem that is equally suited for academics, athletes, sports lawyers and journalists. It is an essential read for those working within sports law generally, and the tennis industry specifically. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Table of Contents
1. THE INTERSECTION bETWEEN LAW and Tennis Ilias Bantekas and Marko Begovic; Part I. CONTRACTUAL: 2. LEGAL and CONTRACTUAL ASPECTS of AGENCY and PLAYER-AGENT RELATIONS in PROFESSIONAL TENNIS William Bull; 3. PROTECTION, COMMERCIALISATION aND ENFORCEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN PROFESSIONAL TENNIS Désirée Fields; 4. MORALITY CLAUSES IN TENNIS AGREEMENTS: TENNIS, SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE DIGITAL WORLD Miguel Crespo; 5. RESTRAINT OF TRADE IN PROFESSIONAL TENNIS Ilias Bantekas; 6. PROFESSIONAL TENNIS PLAYER UNIONS Brendan Schwab; PART II. REGULATORY: 7. ACCESS TO JUSTICE IN TENNIS DISPUTES Ilias Bantekas; 8. THE ITF, ATP AND WTA AND THE GOVERNANCE OF GLOBAL TENNIS; Marko Begovic; 9. SAFEGUARDING in TENNIS: An ENFORCEABLE DUTY of CARE Ilias Bantekas; 10. INTEGRITY in TENNIS: DOPING, MATCH-FIXING and OTHER CORRUPTION OFFENCES Ross Brown, James Singer and Lily Elliott; 11. REGULATING ON-COURT INDISCIPLINE Ben Livings; 12. COMPATIBILITY of SELECTED ATP Rules with EUROPEAN UNION ECONOMIC LAW; Katarina Pijetlovic; 13. THE REGULATION of ETHICS in the ITF'S GOVERNANCE Ilias Bantekas.
