Tag: Stephen Weatherill
Special Collection Available Now, Open Access | From Superleague to ISU: How the Court of Justice of the European Union Reshaped/Renewed the Relationship between EU law and Sport
On 21 December 2023, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union handed down its judgments in three key sports law cases. Between them, these three decisions will shape the application of EU competitional law, the freedom of movement, and Article 165 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to sport. The purpose of this collection is to provide critical insight into the ways that these decisions will impact on the governance of sport, players’ contracts, the specificity of sport, and the potential for breakaway or unauthorised competitions to disrupt the European Model of Sport.
Impressive, insightful and important book on sports law that will stand the test of time
Jack Anderson, Richard Parrish and Borja García have collected a knowledgeable score of European sport law scholars for their collected volume Research Handbook on EU Sports Law and Policy (Edward Elgar). We asked equally knowledgeable David McArdle of Stirling Law School for a review, and he endorses just about everything about the book – except the retail price...
The, one, or the one legacy of Bosman?
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.
