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

This open access book explores the complexity of thelex sportiva, the transnational legal regime governing international sports.

Pioneering in its approach, it maps out the many entanglements of the transnational governance of sports with European legal processes and norms. The contributors trace the embeddedness of thelex sportivawithin national law, European Union law and the European Convention on Human Rights. While the volume emphasizes the capacity of sports governing bodies to leverage the resources of national law to spread thelex sportivaglobally, it also points at the fact that European legal processes are central when challenging the status quo as illustrated recently in theSemenyaandSuperleaguecases. Ultimately, the book is also a vantage point to start critically investigating the Eurocentricity and the complex materiality underpinning thelex sportiva.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swedish Studies Network.

Antoine Duvalis Senior Researcher at the TMC Asser Instituut, the Netherlands.
Alexander Kr?geris Legal Researcher at Ume? University, Sweden.
Johan Lindholmis Professor of Law at Ume? University, Sweden.

1. Made in Europe:Lex Sportivaas Embedded Transnational Law
Antoine Duval , Alexander Kr?gerandJohan Lindholm

Part I. The European Roots of Lex Sportiva

2. EmbeddedLex Sportiva: The Swiss Roots of Transnational Sports Law and Governance
Antoine Duval
3. Putting the Lex intoLex Sportiva: The Principle of Legality in Sports
Johan Lindholm
4. Europeanisation of the Olympic HostlC˜