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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509971483 ISBN 13: 9781509971480

Publisher: Hart Publishing (UK), 2025

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.

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About the Authors

Antoine Duval is Senior Researcher at the TMC Asser Instituut, the Netherlands, a leading inter-university research centre specialised in International and European Law, where he heads the Asser International Sports Law Centre. Before joining the Centre, he obtained a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence in 2015. He has widely published on the transnational private regulation of sports and, in particular, the intersection between lex sportiva and EU law. His scholarly work combines cutting-edge insights on the transnationalization of law and governance with extensive empirical knowledge of sport’s regulations and institutions.

Alexander Krüger is Legal Researcher at Umeå University, Sweden.

Johan Lindholm is Professor of Law at the Department of Law at Umeå University, Sweden.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hart Publishing (UK)
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1509971483
• ISBN 13: 9781509971480
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Johan Lindholm, Antoine Duval, Alexander Krüger