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The European Roots of the Lex Sportiva

How Europe Rules Global Sport

Alexander Krüger editor Professor Johan Lindholm editor Antoine Duval editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:22nd Feb '24

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The volume explores the impact of European law, including EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights, on transnational sports law.

This open access book explores the complexity of the lex sportiva, the transnational legal regime governing international sports. Pioneering in its approach, it maps out the many entanglements of the transnational governance of sports with European legal processes and norms. The contributors trace the embeddedness of the lex sportiva within national law, European Union law and the European Convention on Human Rights. While the volume emphasizes the capacity of sports governing bodies to leverage the resources of national law to spread the lex sportiva globally, it also points at the fact that European legal processes are central when challenging the status quo as illustrated recently in the Semenya and Superleague cases. Ultimately, the book is also a vantage point to start critically investigating the Eurocentricity and the complex materiality underpinning the lex sportiva. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swedish Studies Network.

ISBN: 9781509971442

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328 pages