Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Sports

With the development of communication technologies, sport betting has become a truly global phenomenon. Far from the traditional small local betting operator, the current dynamic sees vast sums of money being bet by punters in one country to a betting operator located in a second for a match located in yet another jurisdiction. As a consequence, the development of deviances, from match-fixing to money laundering has accelerated. This new reality has numerous implications, for the regulation of this billion dollar industry as well as for the very integrity of sport, sport financing and...

This book is a comprehensive, practice-oriented guide to the evidentiary regime under the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code (WADC) including the functioning of the Athlete Biological Passport. It is the first to show how the interplay between science and law affects the collection and evaluation of evidence in anti-doping, and how paradigm shifts in anti-doping strategies may modify evidentiary assumptions implicit to the WADC regime.

Unique in its dealing with the subtleties of anti-doping science and legal implications, the book gives lawyers involved in anti-doping the keys to a better...

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this practical analysis of sports law inandnbsp;Portugal deals with the regulation of sports activity by both public authorities and private sports organizations. The growing internationalization of sports inevitably increases the weight of global regulation, yet each country maintains its own distinct regime of sports law and its own national and local sports organizations. Sports law at a national or organizational level thus gains a growing relevance in comparative law.

The book describes...

Doping is undoubtedly one of the most controversial issues within sport. Doping scandals wreck the careers of sportsmen and women, they can bankrupt governing bodies, infringe personal liberties, threaten livelihoods, tarnish images, galvanise the European Union, undermine the Olympic Movement and invoke invective from politicians.

In recent years, sports law has developed into one of the most exciting and challenging legal disciplines and the importance of the law in doping matters has been heightened by the influx of money into sport and the development of sport as a global...

Pro Jahr finden allein in Deutschland rund 400.000 Verfahren im Bereich des Fuballstrafrechts statt, vor DFB- wie auch vor ordentlichen Gerichten. Der Kommentar bietet den Verfahrensbeteiligten einzigartige Hilfestellung und wertet dabei die Vielzahl auch unveroffentlichter Entscheidungen zum Fuballstrafrecht aus. Erlautert werden die Rechts- und Verfahrensordnung des DFB sowie weitere Normen des staatlichen Rechts und des Sportverbandsrechts.