The European Roots of the Lex Sportiva: How Europe Rules Global Sport (Swedish Studies in European Law) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1509971440 ISBN 13: 9781509971442

Publisher: Hart Publishing (UK), 2024

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hart Publishing (UK)
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1509971440
• ISBN 13: 9781509971442
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Johan Lindholm, Antoine Duval, Alexander Krüger