European Sports Law

What is new?This 3rd edition comes at a time where new ground-breaking court decisions over the last few years have been made – both in the United States about the legal status of American collegiate sports, and in Europe about the scope of the “Sports Article” (Art. 165 TFEU) to protect the traditional European Model of Sport against attempts to introduce leagues modelled around the US Major Leagues in Europe. It has been thoroughly updated and revised since it was last published in 2013. European Sports Law – A Comparative Analysis of the European and American Models of SportThe continued globalization of sport challenges the ways that professional sports in the US and Europe are conducting business, and this development is inevitably reflected in the status quo of sports law. Throughout the chapters on free movement of labor, competition law, agent regulation, broadcasting, and intellectual property rights, European sports law is compared and discussed in a comparative analysis of