Tag: Anna Di Giandomenico

When the IOC recently announced its new policy about eligibility in the female category (no male physiological advantage permitted), there was push-back from supporters of the previous, all-inclusive, IOC policy (the Framework Document from 2021). According to Jon Pike and Miroslav Imbrišević their arguments don’t stand up to scrutiny, as they claim to have shown in their previous essay “The Ethics of Sex Verification”. They decided to expand their rebuttal and invite colleagues from other disciplines to help with scrutinizing arguments that oppose the IOC policy.

In Sport, Law and Philosophy: The Jurisprudence of Sport (Routledge), edited by Miroslav Imbrišević, a number of contributions discuss the intersection of law and sport and highlights its usefulness to both legal scholars and philosophers of sport. We asked Westminster Law School Professor Guy Osborn for a review, and his reading of this timely collection gave rise to interesting reflections about the emerging area of jurisprudence of sport where law and philosophy intervenes in a field of human activity governed by rules – sport – that offers scholars a wide range of areas for intervention.