Sports Law Av Simon Gardiner, Roger Welch, Simon (Nottingham Trent University) Boyes, Urvasi Naidoo

<P>Long established as the market leading textbook on sports law, this much-anticipated new edition offers a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the legal issues surrounding and governing sport internationally. Locating the legal regulation of sport within an explicit socio-economic context, this refocused edition is divided into four core parts: Governance & Sport; Commercial Regulation; Sports Workplace; and Safety in Sport.</P><P></P><P>Recent developments covered in this edition include:</P><P></P><UL><P><LI>EU competition law interaction with sport under arts. 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union;</LI><P></P><P><LI>the current World Anti-Doping Agency code;</LI><P></P><P><LI>analysis of the recent Court of Arbitration for Sport Jurisprudence;</LI><P></P><P><LI>reforms of the transfer system in team sports;</LI><P></P><P><LI>anti-discrimination provisions in sport;</LI><P></P><P><LI>engagement with match fixing;</LI><P></P><P><LI>a focus