Lex Sportiva: What is Sports Law? [Hardcover]

The important theme What is Sports Law? was the topic of the international Conference on The Concept of Lex Sportiva Revisited, which took place in Jakarta in late 2010. Academics and practitioners are still in debate to agree on this concept as is evident in this book.This book not only contains the worked out contributions of this Conference, but also other related chapters on the subject. It produces a reassessment of the content of Sports Law and its terminology keeping a close eye on the current literature.The book appears in the ASSER International Sports Law Series, under the editorship of Prof. Dr. Robert Siekmann, Dr. Janwillem Soek and Marco van der Harst LL.M.The International Conference on Lex Sportiva, Djakarta, 22 September 2010.- What Is Sports Law? Is There a Global Sports Law? Is There a Lex Sportiva? Lex Sportiva and Lex Ludica: the Court of Arbitration for Sports Jurisprudence.- The Making of a Lex Sportiva by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.- Sports Law: Implications for the Development of International, Comparative, and National Law and Global Dispute Resolution.- Lex Sportiva and Lex Mercatoria.- The Principle of Fairness in the Lex Sportiva of CAS Awards and Beyond.- Transnational Sports Law.- Public International Sports Law  A Forgotten Discipline?Is There Such aThing as EU Sports Law? Fairness, Openness and the Specific Nature of Sport: Does the Lisbon Treaty Change EU Sports Law? Towards a Typology of (International) Comparative Sports Law (Research).- What is Sports Law? A Reassessment of Content and Terminology.

With a Foreword by Dr Hinca Pandjaitan, Executive Director, Indonesia Lex Sportiva Instituta, Djakarta.

This book is the first to focus on the often raised and discussed question whether there is a separate discipline of international sports law and, if so, which criteria should be used to identify it. What belongs to it and what does it involve? So far, the debate has nlsW