Tag: sports law

The ISLJ is the only truly “international” peer-reviewed sports law journal consistently offering broad content coverage, such as significant case law analysis, legal commentary and sports related information from sports law experts around the world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Integrating the Olympic Truce into international law: legal implications of the Russian case by Antonio Du Marco (open access).

Sports Law, Policy & Diplomacy Journal is dedicated to publishing articles that contribute to theoretical, methodological, and empirical knowledge in the complex field of law, public policy, and diplomacy in the sports system, as well as in other areas of social science focused on sports. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Social Analysis in the Media Coverage of Sport by Rosarita Cuccoli (open access).

SSSF, a multidisciplinary social sciences sport studies journal, welcomes articles that deal with sport and social change and social stability in a wide sense, articles about the profound and comprehensive processes affecting sport. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Does responsibility fall on the players or the sporting context? A study of the use of injury-prevention programmes in Swedish elite floorball clubs by Taru Tervo, Andreas Simensen & Staffan Karp (open access).

Sports competitions are often based on nationality, resulting in a form of accepted discrimination because of the specific characteristics of sport. But does the same principle apply to professional competitions? And does it also apply if private entities are organizing them? Through the examination of some case law, the lecture aims to clarify what is the limit of legitimate discrimination in sports. Speakers: Giulia Mannucci and Ippolito Piazza, University of Florence.

Registration is now open for the VIII Sport and Global Governance Conference, with the following themes: Global sports governance; Lex sportiva and regulatory autonomy; and From soft law to rights.

Contracts play a crucial role in the world of sport, particularly long-term contracts. Contractual agreements form the foundation of transnational sports governance, sports governing bodies are all formally the product of a specific time of contract (be it in the form of an association or corporation) often justifying the autonomy of sport and its private governance at a (more or less far) distance from the state. This workshop proposes to explore the role of long-term contracts in sport and their characteristics through a variety of theoretical and methodological lenses.

Sports Law, Policy & Diplomacy Journal is dedicated to publishing articles that contribute to theoretical, methodological, and empirical knowledge in the complex field of law, public policy, and diplomacy in the sports system, as well as in other areas of social science focused on sports. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The Maccabiah as a New Sports Diplomacy Instrument by Sophia Solomon, Sharon Pardo, Hila Zahavi (open access)

The ISLJ is the only truly “international” peer-reviewed sports law journal consistently offering broad content coverage, such as significant case law analysis, legal commentary and sports related information from sports law experts around the world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Throwing a lifeline to an old sport: a modern review of the America’s Cup Deed of Gift by Hamish Ross.

Sports Law, Policy & Diplomacy Journal is dedicated to publishing articles that contribute to theoretical, methodological, and empirical knowledge in the complex field of law, public policy, and diplomacy in the sports system, as well as in other areas of social science focused on sports. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Children and Sports: The Right to Engage in Play and Recreational Activities by Sandra Winkler (open access).

The lex olympica are legal rules the International Olympic Committee created to govern the Olympic Movement. Since the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896, the lex olympica, with the Olympic Charter taking its central place, has undergone tremendous changes. It has increased not only in volume but also in complexity and reach. While some changes were designed to give further detail to the Olympic values, others seem to serve as responses to numerous disruptions and challenges that the Olympic Games experienced on their way.