Sports law has been growing with increasing rapidity over the years since the first edition of this book was published in 1999, regularly making headlines as well as leading to a developing body of law practised by specialist lawyers. This revised work, by leading practitioners in the field, with a foreword by Lord Coe, provides a coherent framework for understanding the principles of sports law in this area, as well as a deep analysis of its key features. The subject is split into various areas of practice: first, regulatory rules, which embrace the constitutional aspect of organised sport, including the disciplinary procedures of the various governing organisations; second, broadcasting and marketing resulting from the commercial exploitation, including sponsorship, of sports clubs, sporting events and players; and third, player's rights and obligations, which embraces a wide range of legal issues including club transfers and player contracts, and issues arising from employment (including discrimination law), personal injury and criminal law. Special attention is paid to the impact of EU and Human Rights law as well as to the influential jurisprudence of the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
London 2012 provides an appropriate point at which to assess the current state of the law, as well as a look to the future. The target readership extends from solicitors, barristers and legal advisers, to sports organisations and clubs, corporations involved in marketing and sponsorship, media companies, academics teaching sports law, and sports administrators.
"I commend it to everyone who has to administer sport as well as to those who have to advise the administrators or argue cases in the field on whatever side. It is a gold medal book."
From the Foreword by Lord Coe KBE
Beloff, Rupert: - Rupert Beloff is a Barrister at No5 Chambers.
Demetriou, Marie: - Marie Demetriou QC is a barrister at Brick Court Chambers.
Kc, Michael Beloff: -
The Hon Michael Beloff KC is a barrister at Blackstone Chambers, a former President of Trinity College Oxford. He is Treasurer of Gray's Inn and Senior Ordinary Appeal Judge of the Channel Islands Courts of Appeals. He is also a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport. He has also served as an Olympic arbitrator on five separate occasions.
'Michael Beloff QC is in the small pantheon of great civil barristers of the last half century'
The Times 'The law according to W.S. Gilberts Lord Chancellor is "the true embodiment or everything that's excellent'" and, by common consent, Michael Beloff QC has been one of the prime exemplars of that excellence over the past fifty years'
The Spectator 'Michael Beloff KC is generally regarded as the legal giant of his generation. There are no historical or contemporary barristers who have come close to sitting at the top of the advocacy tree for so long and so successfully'
Times Literary SupplementKerr, Tim: - Tim Kerr QC is a Barrister at 11 King's Bench Walk, specialising in public law, EU law, sports law and human rights.
