Recently added articles from The International Sports Law Journal:
The sale of rights to broadcast sporting events under EC law.(European Community)
Jul 01, 2006; Weatherill, Stephen ... 1 Introduction--the constitutional context Although it may be intuitively appealing to assume that an integrated market for Europe inevitably brings with it an integrated regulatory strategy underpinning that market, the EC Treaty does not provide for this. Article 5(1) EC ...
Sport in national sports acts and constitutions: definition, ratio legis and objectives.(legislation)
Jul 01, 2006; Soek, Janwillem ... 1. The Regulation of Sport (1) In December 2001, Dutch Members of Parliament tabled a motion concerning the advisability of enacting national sports legislation. As a result of this, the State Secretary for Sport requested Professor Heiko van Staveren, Professor of Sport and Law ...
Revised or new test procedures: what CAS requires.(Court of Arbitration for Sport)
Jul 01, 2006; McLaren, Richard H. ... Introduction The World Anti Doping Code, {the WADA Code} that applies to all Summer Olympic sports, came into effect just in time for the opening of the "Welcome Home" Olympic Summer Games in Athens, Greece in August 2004. (1) Since that time, challenges to the Code have become ...
The CAS Ad Hoc division at the XX olympic winter games in Turin.(Court of Arbitration for Sport )
Jul 01, 2006; Zagklis, Andreas K. ... Introduction Almost ten years after the first Ad hoc division (AHD) of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) was set up for the Games of the XXVI Olympiad in Atlanta (1996), the CAS organised another AHD for the XX Olympic Winter Games in Turin (2006) (1). The mission of this ...
Legal aspects of the representation of football players in Brazil.
Jul 01, 2006; Martins Castro, Luiz Roberto ... Introduction Firstly, before going into the sporting question and, more specifically, the regulations governing football players' agents in more detail, it is important to bring to the attention of the reader who is unfamiliar with the Brazilian political regime that Brazil is a ...
The 'Independent European Sport Review': a critical overview.(Organization overview)
Jul 01, 2006; Miettinen, Samuli ... In 2005 the UK Presidency of the European Union initiated a review of European football with a mandate 'to produce a report, independent of the Football Authorities, but commissioned by UEFA, on how the European football authorities, EU institutions and member states can best implement the ...
Doping, doctors and athletes: the evolving legal paradigm.
Jul 01, 2006; O'Leary, John ... In the past, legal interest in anti-doping violations has tended to concentrate on the relationship between The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the governing body and the athlete. In the limited examples of an athlete bringing a successful legal action in response to a governing body ...
Golf: validity and enforceability of exemption clauses in south African law.
Jul 01, 2006; Cornelius, Steve ... 1. Introduction Exemption clauses that exclude civil liability for damage, loss, injury and even death, have, in various forms, become standard features of contracts in South Africa. (1) It is particularly in the case of standard form adhesionary contracts, where the terms of ...
Study into the possible participation of EPFL and G-14 in a social dialogue in the European professional football sector.
Jul 01, 2006; Siekmann, Robert ... Chapter 1: Introduction The purpose of this study is to investigate whether EPFL and G-14, as European employers' organizations may participate in a possible Social Dialogue with FIFPro under the EC Treaty in the professional football sector. An additional question to be ...
The right to information and of short reporting/short extracts with regard to sports *.(PAPERS)(Case study)
Jul 01, 2006; Siekmann, Robert ... I. Introduction In this contribution I will first deal with the case NOS (the Dutch joint national public broadcaster) v. Talpa (a new commercial broadcaster) regarding the possible existence of an enforceable "preferential right" of the NOS with regard to the short reporting ...
The professional athlete-employee or entrepreneur?(PAPERS)(Case study)
Jul 01, 2006; Blackshaw, Ian ... Introductory Remarks Since the reestablishment of the Olympic Games of the modern era by Baron Pierre de Coubertin in 1896, sport has become highly competitive and business orientated. Amateurism has given way to professionalism. In fact, sport is now worth more than 3% of world ...
Bans on discrimination and duties to differentiate in the German law of sports organizations.(PAPERS)(Case study)
Jul 01, 2006; Vieweg, Klaus ... I. Introduction Differentiation in sports is widespread: according to sex, age, and weight. We distinguish between ladies' and men's football; youth and adult championships; feather--and heavyweight boxing. The reasons for differentiating are not far to seek: differentiation is ...
Sports administration and good governance: theory and practice in South Africa *.(Case study)
Jul 01, 2006; Brooks, Brian ... Abstract This paper is a follow up to papers delivered at the past two IASL Congresses. The first of those earlier papers examined the role of ethics as a regulator of sport. The second discussed the relationship between sport and recreation and the laws protecting the ...
Fair play on and off the field of play: settling sports disputes through the court of arbitration for sport.(Organization overview)
Jul 01, 2006; Blackshaw, Ian ... Introductory Remarks Sport is now a global business worth more than 3% of world trade. In the enlarged European Union, now comprising 25 Member States, it accounts for 2% of their combined Gross National Product. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that sports disputes are on ...
European law: two swimmers drown the "sporting exception".(OPINION)
Jul 01, 2006; de Dios Crespo, Juan ... On 18 July 2006, the Court of Justice of the European Communities (ECJ) rendered a leading judgement clarifying the relationship between European and national law in relation to international sports federations. As this judgement was rendered in a dispute concerning the sport of ...
Update--The Meca-Medina Case.(European Law: two Swimmers Drown the "Sporting Exception")(David Meca-Medina and Igor Majcen )
Jul 01, 2006 ... Introductory An appeal to the full court of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) against the judgement of the Court of First Instance of the ECJ in the case of David Meca-Medina and Igor Majcen v Commission of the European Communities (Case T-313/02; Judgement 30 September 2004), ...
Lance Armstrong innocent of doping--according to an independent investigation.(European Law: two Swimmers Drown the "Sporting Exception")
Jul 01, 2006 ... According to a 130-page Report issued on 31 May, 2006 by an independent investigative team, appointed by the International Cycling Union (UCI) on 9 November, 2005, led by Dutch sports doping legal expert, Emile Vrijman, of the Sports Law Firm, Scholten, based in The Hague, exonerated the ...
When is a logo not a logo?--Advertising at the Olympics.(European Law: two Swimmers Drown the "Sporting Exception")
Jul 01, 2006 ... All forms of advertising at the Summer and Winter Olympic Games are strictly controlled by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Indeed, the marketing of the Games is a sensitive issue. And what would Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the Olympics of the modern era, make of ...
Another first for the court of arbitration for sport.(European Law: two Swimmers Drown the "Sporting Exception")
Jul 01, 2006 ... By all accounts, apart from the typical efficient German organisation, the 2006 World Cup was, generally speaking, a rather lack lustre affair, so as far as the football was concerned. Although the tournament did come to an end with something of bang--the infamous head butt of Zidane ...
English premier league 'bungs' inquiry: will it prove to be a 'whitewash'?(European Law: two Swimmers Drown the "Sporting Exception")
Jul 01, 2006 ... The English Language is a treasure trove of colourful words and expressions. And one such expression, that has passed into common parlance in the last fifteen years or so, is the 'bung'. This denotes a bribe--or, to use more euphemistic language, a secret payment to facilitate or sweeten a ...
