Introduction Flashcards
What important roles does sport perform?
- Educational role
- Social and cultural role (socio-cultural)
- Public health role
Why is sport big business?
- Have become a major source of employment
- Accountable for up to 2% of the global GDP
Explain the legal discipline of sports law
Sports law has for many decades been a separate legal subject in the US.
- Sports law vs. sports and the law
- Sport should be seen as an applied area of law.
How can sports law as a legal standard be divided?
- A core which consists of the rules and the regulations decided by the sports organisations themselves. The “core” is not subject to any outside interference from the public - this has changed over time - demand from the surrounding world on the sports community to comply with society’s ordinary laws and legal principles.
- A surrounding area consisting of society’s ordinary law and legal principles.
Why should sports law be seen as a legal discipline?
Because the solutions to problems or disputes involving the sporting community should sometimes be different from the solutions provided outside the sports world.
Which 4 examples does the author use to explain sports law?
- The core
- An applied area of law
- Statutory laws which specifically aim to regulate sport in one way or another.
- Legal considerations so specific to the sporting community that they could supply a result that would otherwise not have been achieved in other areas of social life.
What is the WADA-code?
The first legal document ever to harmonise the rules and regulations concerning anti-doping across all countries and all sports.
- Illustration of the growing internationalisation of important transnational issues in sports.