Tag: Simon Gardiner

In Restoring Trust in Sport: Corruption Cases and Solutions (Routledge), editor Catherine Ordway has collected sport corruption case studies in which leading researchers consider how to re-establish trust both within sports organizations and in the wider sporting public, inspired by the idea of ‘moral repair’. Our reviewer Mikael Hansson’s critical reading turns up a general impression of an ambitious, well-conceived anthology, a useful source of knowledge and inspiration.

The Bosman judgment is considered from a number of angles in the anthology The Legacy of Bosman: Revisiting the Relationship between EU Law and Sport edited by Antoine Duval & Ben Van Rompuy (TMC Asser Press). Our reviewer Mikael Hansson finds valuable contributions as well as less so, and would perhaps have liked a slightly counterfactual approach as well.

With their edited volume Handbook on International Sports Law (Edward Elgar), James A.R. Nafziger & Stephen F. Ross wanted to contribute to the development of the field of international sports law. But, as Mikael Hansson discovered, ”international” sometimes (and all too often) largely means the English-speaking world.

Lotta Wendel har läst Simon Gardiner och kollegors Sports Law och gör intressanta jämförelser med den enda svenska motsvarigheten, Jyri Backmans Idrottsjuridik – en introduktion.

Bo Carlsson Regulating Football: Commodification, Consumption and the Law (2001) Steve Greenfield and Guy Osborn Pluto Press. ISBN: 0-7453-1026-5 Under senare år har den europeiska fotbollen genomgått stora förändringar. Regulating...