The European Roots of the Lex Sportiva: How Europe Rules Global Sport

This book explores the transnational legal regime governing international sports, tracing its entanglements with European legal processes and norms. It emphasizes the capacity of sports governing bodies to leverage national law to spread the lex sportiva globally, but also points at the importance of European legal processes in challenging the status quo. It critically investigates the Eurocentricity and materiality underpinning the lex sportiva.

Format: Hardback
Length: 328 pages
Publication date: 22 February 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

This comprehensive open-access book delves into the intricate realm of the lex sportiva, the transnational legal framework that governs international sports. Setting itself apart, it meticulously charts the multifaceted connections between the transnational governance of sports and European legal processes and norms. The contributors meticulously trace the embeddedness of the lex sportiva within national law, European Union law, and the European Convention on Human Rights. While the volume highlights the potential of sports governing bodies to leverage national law to disseminate the lex sportiva globally, it also underscores the pivotal role of European legal processes in challenging the status quo, as exemplified in recent cases such as Semenya and Superleague. Ultimately, this book serves as a valuable starting point for a critical examination of the Eurocentricity and the complex materiality underlying the lex sportiva. The ebook editions of this book are freely accessible open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. The funding for open access was provided by the Swedish Studies Network.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781509971442