in law from the VUB and held visiting scholar positions at Georgetown University and New York University.The book appears in the ASSER International Sports Law Series, under the editorship of Prof.

This book examines the employment arrangements of professional athletes in the Premier League football competition, the National Basketball Association competition and rugby union played at an international level. It describes the organisation and regulatory frameworks of these three professional team sports and highlights the legal, economic and regulatory factors that influence the final form of an athlete's working conditions.

It provides a comparative analysis between the sports on issues such as the role of collective bargaining, wage regulation, salary caps, nationality...