Regulating international sport : power, authority and legitimacy /

In a fresh and original account, Lloyd Freeburn challenges the conventional conception of contracts as the consent-based legal foundation of international sports law. The prevailing legal orthodoxy is shown to be untenable, failing to explain or justify international sports governing bodies' re...

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Main Author: Freeburn, Lloyd
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, 2018
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Table of Contents:
  • Fundamental aspects of regulatory power in international sport
  • The contractual authority of sports governing bodies : the real and the fictional
  • The de facto power of sports governing bodies
  • The extent and function of consent in the de facto power of sports governing bodies
  • The de facto jurisdiction of the Court of Arbitration for Sport
  • Individual liberty and de facto power
  • Legitimacy and the justification of the regulatory power of international sports governing bodies
  • Conferring legality on the regulation of international sport : the need for an international treaty