The conference volume makes a significant contribution to the legal theory and legal philosophy of sports law.

SpuRt – Zeitschrift für Sport und Recht

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.

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1. Made in Europe: Lex Sportiva as Embedded Transnational Law
Antoine Duval , Alexander Krüger and Johan Lindholm

Part I. The European Roots of Lex Sportiva

2. Embedded Lex Sportiva: The Swiss Roots of Transnational Sports Law and Governance
Antoine Duval
3. Putting the Lex into Lex Sportiva: The Principle of Legality in Sports
Johan Lindholm
4. Europeanisation of the Olympic Host City Contracts
Yuliya Chernykh
5. The Influence of European Legal Culture on the Evolution of Lex Olympica and Olympic Law
Mark James and Guy Osborn
6. Who Regulates the Regulators? How European Union Regulation and Regulatory Institutions May Shape the Regulation of the Football Industry Globally
Christopher A. Flanagan
7. The Europeanisation of Clean Sport: How the Council of Europe and the European Union Shape the Proportionality of Ineligibility in the World Anti-Doping Code
Jan Exner

Part II. The Integration of European Checks into the Lex Sportiva

8. False Friends: Proportionality and Good Governance in Sports Regulation
Mislav Mataija
9. Sport Beyond the Market? Sport, Law and Society in the European Union
Aurélie Villanueva
10. EU Competition Law and Sport: Checks and Balances ‘à l’européenne’
Rusa Agafonova
11. Is the Lex Sportiva on Track for Intersex Person’s Rights? The World Athletics’ Regulations Concerning Female Athletes with Differences of Sex Development in the Light of the ECHR
Audrey Boisgontier

Part III. Engaging Critically with a Eurocentric Lex Sportiva

12. Lex Sportiva and New Materialism: Towards Investigations into Sports Law’s Dark Materials?
Alexander Krüger

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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.
A vantage point to critically investigate the Eurocentricity and the complex materiality underpinning the lex sportiva

Thematic volumes devoted to the its development, impact and reform of European law from the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies.
This series reflects the variety of issues and dilemmas that European law faces and includes inquiries into specific areas of EU law and policy, as well as overarching questions of EU institutional and constitutional law. The volumes in the series are edited by members of the Network and contain original, analytical contributions by Swedish, Nordic and international scholars, who are experts in the respective thematic field. The contributions are discussed at conferences, workshops and symposia organized and funded by the Network.

More information about the Swedish Network for European Legal Studies is available at: www.snef.se

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Product details

ISBN
9781509971480
Published
2025-08-21
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight
480 gr
Height
232 mm
Width
152 mm
Thickness
22 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
400

Biographical note

Antoine Duval is Senior Researcher at the TMC Asser Instituut, the Netherlands.
Alexander Krüger is Legal Researcher at Umeå University, Sweden.
Johan Lindholm is Professor of Law at Umeå University, Sweden.