Tag: Seema Patel

The edited collection The Routledge Handbook of Mega-Sporting Events and Human Rights (Routledge) provides new perspectives on human rights as a lens for understanding modern sport and as a guiding principle for responsible sport that protects the interests of individuals and communities, as well as offering guidance on best practice. Lina von Petersdorff has read this vast collection and found it to be a successful venture where the chapters build upon each other to create a comprehensive understanding of the kind of problems involved in protecting human rights in mega-sporting events.

The International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics is published by Routledge, and aims to publish articles that address all aspects of sport policy irrespective of academic discipline. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: The London Games of 2012, New Labour and the ‘known unknowns’ of the Olympics by Giuseppe Telesca.

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: Gaps in the protection of athletes gender’ rights in sport—a regulatory riddle by Seema Patel (open access).

ESLJ is a refereed and open access online journal. It is located within a dynamic and rapidly expanding area of legal theory and legal practice. Whilst focussed within legal study, the areas it encompasses are necessarily interdisciplinary. Editor’s pick from the current issue: KEN FOSTER AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF UK SPORTS LAW: A REFLECTIVE INTERVIEW by Steve Greenfield, Mark James, Guy Osborn