Tag: Sylvia Schenk

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.

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...