The European Roots of the Lex Sportiva: How Europe Rules Global Sport
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Publishing Details
The European Roots of the Lex Sportiva: How Europe Rules Global Sport
By (Author) Antoine Duval
Edited by Alexander Krger
Edited by Professor Johan Lindholm
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Hart Publishing
21st August 2025
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Public international law: treaties and other sources
Physical Properties
Paperback
400
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Description
This open access book explores the complexity of the lex 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 the lex sportiva within 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 the lex sportiva globally, it also points at the fact that European legal processes are central when challenging the status quo as illustrated recently in the Semenya and Superleague cases. Ultimately, the book is also a vantage point to start critically investigating the Eurocentricity and the complex materiality underpinning the lex 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.
Author Bio
Antoine Duval is Senior Researcher at the TMC Asser Instituut, the Netherlands.
Alexander Krger is Legal Researcher at Ume University, Sweden.
Johan Lindholm is Professor of Law at Ume University, Sweden.
