Tag: sociology of law

SLA is a non-profit, international, professional organization whose common goal is the understanding, advancement and ethical practice of sports law. The purpose of the academic section of SLA is to bring industry and the academy together and to introduce SLA membership to the timely research conducted on sport law topics.

Bo Carlsson, whose PhD was in sociology of law, is presently a full professor of sport science at Linnaeus University, having previously worked at Lund and Malmö Universities. He is a prolific writer, with a number of monographs, anthologies, book chapters and scholarly articles to his name, as well as several special issues of scholarly journals, and always focusing on the relationship of sport and society and the place of law therein. Bo Carlsson took the initiative to and is one of the founders of idrottsforum.org.