Professional Sport in the EU:Regulation and Re-Regulation / Edition 1

by Andrew Caiger

Overview

This book comes at a critical time for the future development of sports law. It examines key issues of both contemporary and future importance to the administration of sporting activity in the European Union. The book is particularly pertinent coming at a time when European Community law is playing a key role in the restructuring of football's transfer system. This forms only one small, though highly significant, part of the fundamental shift that has taken place in European professional sport; away from the self-regulatory autonomy of sporting bodies towards a system more rigidly codified and governed by main­ stream legal norms and rules. The law, in particular the economic freedoms provided for under the Treaty of Rome, has become a key weapon in the armoury of those who wish to exploit sport to its full commercial potential, free of self-regulatory constraints. It is not only those desirous of exploiting the economic potential of sport, who have made use of European Community law. As sport has become increasingly com­ mercialised and commodified, it has also attracted the attention of the institutions of the Community, which have been keen to ensure that sports regulations adhere to Community law.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789067041263
Publisher:	T.M.C. Asser Press
Publication date:	03/07/2001
Pages:	370
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Andrew Caiger, Senior Lecturer, International Sports Law Centre, Anglia Polytechnic University, Chelmsford.

Simon Gardiner, Director, International Sports Law Centre, Anglia Polytechnic University, Chelmsford.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Re-Regulating Professional Sport in the European Union.- Introduction: Re-Regulating Professional Sport in the European Union.- In the Footsteps of Bosman: An Interview with Jean-Louis Dupont — The Man Who Lit the Fuse under European Sport.- In the Footsteps of Bosman: An Interview with Jean-Louis Dupont — The Man Who Lit the Fuse under European Sport.- Theoretical and Policy Perspectives.- Reconciling Conflicting Approaches to Sport in the European Union.- Can Sport be Regulated by Europe?: An Analysis of Alternative Models.- Globalisation, Europe and the Re-Regulation of Sport.- The Frontiers of Regulatory Mechanisms.- The Legal Autonomy of Sport Organisations and the Restrictions of European Law.- ’show Me the Money’: Regulation of the Migration of Professional Sportsmen in Post-Bosman Europe.- National Eligibility Rules After Bosman.- Selling Your Sole: e-Europe, Eu Law and Sports Marketing.- The Re-regulation of Football: A Quest for Order.- The Battle for TV Rights in Professional Football.- The End of the Affair: The ‘Anelka Doctrine’ — The Problem of Contract Stability in English Professional Football.- The Effectiveness of the Corporate form as a Regulatory Tool in European Sport: Real or Illusory?.- Comparative Perspectives: Localisation and Specificity.- Legislation on Sports in Poland.- The Regulation of Sports Activities in Greece.- The Approach to Sports Policy in Belgium.- Regulation of Sports Leagues, Teams, Athletes and Agents in the United States.- Postscript: Legal Intervention and the Possibility of Enlightened Governance.