Long established as the market leading textbook on sports law, this much-anticipated new edition offers a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the legal issues surrounding and governing sport internationally. Locating the legal regulation of sport within an explicit socio-economic context, this refocused edition is divided into four core parts: Governance & Sport; Commercial Regulation; Sports Workplace; and Safety in Sport.





Recent developments covered in this edition include:











EU competition law interaction with sport under arts. 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;







the current World Anti-Doping Agency code;







analysis of the recent Court of Arbitration for Sport Jurisprudence;







reforms of the transfer system in team sports;







anti-discrimination provisions in sport;







engagement with match fixing;







a focus on