Sports Law: Lex Sportiva & Lex Olympica Theory and Praxis - Softcover

Panagiotopoulos, Dimitrios P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1546347151 ISBN 13: 9781546347156

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

The book is designed to cover the historical development of sports law and addresses the fundamental issues of this field of law, whereas at the same time it analyses some of the most important contemporary legal issues of the field. The book includes 6 Parts. 1. Part I bears the title “Theoretical Foundation of Sports Law”. This Part analyses sports law as a special branch of academic study and raises the question what is sports law, whereby the issues addressed are the principles of sports law, its origin, process, grounds, aetiology, legitimacy, meaning, nature, structure, substance, character and system. Effort is made to lay down systematic foundations for sports law as a special branch of knowledge. Lastly, reference is made to the policy at EU level on sport. 2. Part II includes a “Sports Law Theory”. In this Part, sports rules as rules of law are = explored and law is placed in theoretical terms within the context of sports rules. In that way, the legal aspects of physical and sporting activity are examined. This is followed by a discussion on the emergence and establishment of the international sports legal order, as well as on its relation with the traditional legal orders. 3. Part III addresses some important contemporary legal issues affecting the organisation and regulation of sport activities. They are divided into six major categories: Ethics in Sport (sporting spirit and fair play), Doping in Sport, Choregia - Sponsoring, Broadcasting of Sport Games, Human Rights of Minor Athletes and Betting. 4. Part IV covers the Law of the Olympic Games (Lex Olympica). It includes not only the historical development of the Games and its regulation starting from ancient Greece, but also the current regulations and legal status of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), as well as issues that rise from the participation of athletes in the Olympic Games. 5. Part V analyses the sporting jurisdictional order and its fundamental principles (fair trial), focusing on the international sporting jurisdictional system and the role of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). 6. Finally, Part VI includes the basic elements of the Greek Sports Law, analysing the state law and federations’ regulations on Amateur and Professional Sport, Sport Club and Sport Federation, Sports criminal law (Penalties and criminal sanctions), Labour Law in Sport (Providing and offering sports services).

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About the Author:

Dimitrios P. Panagiotopoulos. Professor of Sports Law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Attorney at Law in Supreme Court and Council of State, President of the International Association of Sports Law (IASL) and (f) Vice-Rector of the University of Central Greece. The author has many academic and professional positions as professor, advocate, attorney at law in Supreme Court and Council of State, Member of the Athens Bar Association, Legal Consultant of many Legal persons and Sports Federations and Organizations. He is Director of the Law Firm “Panagiotopoulos and Partners”, that undertakes law cases of Sports Law and cases in the fields of Commercial Law, Civil law, Contracts, & Torts, Product Liability Law, Labour Law, Comparative Law, Finance and Administrative Law. Also, he is a Special Expert in Sports Law in the European Union and member of Sports Law committees of Ministry of Culture, as well as member of the Legal Council of the Union of Anonym Society Companies since 2002. Furthermore, the author was a member of the Committee of the European Presidency (2003-2004), responsible of sports legislation and the establishment of the Sports Law Code. Scientific activities He has participated in the Organization of many Scientific Conferences - Congresses - Seminars - Symposiums, covering the Sports Science and Sports Law. He is a member of many Greek and foreign scientific societies and President of the Hellenic Center for Research on Sports Law (EKEAD). He is the author and editor of several scientific books and monographies and has published over 200 scientific studies in Greek and International scientific journals, with many reports of other Greek and foreign scientists. The author has been President of the International Association of Sports Law (IASL) since 2009 (www.iasl.org) and a Founder member and Secretary General from 1992 until 2008. He is the editor of IASL’s international journal “International Sports Law Review Pandektis” and of the Greek journal “Lex Sportiva”. He has also been an invited lecturer on subjects concerning Sports Law and Lex Sportiva, in many universities and sports Law Centers, such as in all IASL Sports Law Congress and other International Congress and Seminars in European Countries, Asia, Africa, South and North America (USA). The author’s work has been warmly commented upon by many personalities of the political and scientific world and the daily press in Greece and abroad.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1546347151
• ISBN 13: 9781546347156
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 740