NOLOT is proud to announce a new publishing and ground-breaking venture providing quarterly reports on the worldwide legal and tax aspects of sport and their practical implications, including EC legal and tax developments, which will be available in print and on line. The launch date for the first issue of Global Sports Law and Taxation Reports will be the end of November 2010. Next and subsequent year’s issues will be published in March, June, September, and December.

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Sport and the Law: A Concise Guide provides an overview of the law relating to sport in Ireland. In recent years we have seen an increased involvement of the law as it applies sport. Sport and the Law identifies the main legal concepts in a clear, concise and user-friendly manner.

Sport and the Law: A Concise Guide is intended for use by sports governing bodies, sports persons, coaches, referees, lawyers, and those studying sports or law related courses. It is also a useful source for those who have an interest in the interaction between sport and the law.

The author, Laura Donnellan, LLB, LLM is a Lecturer in Law in the School of Law, University of Limerick. Published by Blackhall Publishing

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‘Sports Law’, written by Professor Mark James and published by Palgrave Macmillan is the most up to date and serious proposition in the current Sports Law academic books panorama.

Mark James, one of the authors of the book ‘Sports Law’ published by Cavendish Publishing (last edition of 2006), goes solo on this mission. The result is a more comprehensive and useful book, not only for students of the topic, but also for practitioners wanting to learn from scratch.

Where the previous ‘Sports Law’ dedicated endless number of pages to debate whether there is such a thing as ‘Sports Law’ or the number of resolution of the Council of Europe, or the reports about football of the nineties, Mark James goes straight to the point (see chapter 1).

Alfonso Valero, Co-Editor Lawinsport.com, reviews Sports Sponsorship & the Law, a report edited by Stephan Fabien and published by International Marketing Reports.

The idea of the text is brilliant: a compilation of all the must know information about sponsorship for managers of companies which need to face a great deal of decisions about the topic. But not only that, the report is also good for practitioners who want to read experts' opinions as well as academics and students involved with sponsorship; a great deal of people interested in this industry would be attracted to this publication.

The report draws opinions from different operators: best known solicitors (Bird and Bird, K&L Gates, Farrer & Co, Onside Law amongst others); barristers (Jonathan Crystal, of Cloister Chambers) and clubs (Zoë Ward, of Liverpool FC).

By Alfonso Valero, Co-Editor Lawinsport.com

(published in Spanish only)

Written by Juan de Dios Crespo Pérez and Ricardo Frega Navía, Dykinson, S.L., Madrid, Spain, 2010, pp. 267, ISBN 978-84-9849-908-7.

Part of a compilation about Sports Law launched by the Spanish publisher, Dykinson, S.L., the book of Juan de Dios Crespo and Ricardo Frega comes to fill an incomprehensible gap in the current legal literature panorama.

With the only exception, probably, of ‘The Jurisprudence of the FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber’ (Asser International Sports Law Series), which is in fact quite different in focus and study, there are no books studying the Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players.

By Mark James (Palgrave Macmillan)

A clear and rigorous introduction to the fascinating area of sports law, providing a solid grasp of the necessary legal principles and examining the way that the law has become a means of regulating modern sport at both the professional and amateur levels.

Sports Law provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which the law has impacted on how sport is played, administered and consumed.

The author writes in a clear and engaging manner, tracing the origins and sources of this new subject and drawing examples from a wide range of professional and amateur sports to illustrate the important current debates and topics of interest. Of particular relevance, in the run up to 2012, is a chapter dedicated to the Olympic Games.

Written by Jack Anderson (Hart Publishing)

The aim of this book is to provide an account of how the law influences the operation, administration and playing of modern sports. Although the book focuses on legal doctrine it has been written bearing in mind sport’s historical, cultural, social and economic context, including the drama and colour of sport’s major events and leading personalities. And although it is inevitably very much concerned with elite professional sports it is not dominated by them, and seeks to cover the widest possible range of sports, professional and amateur.

Edited by Prof. Dr. Frank Hendrickx (Kluwer Law International)

Sports Law encompasses both autonomous as well as state created rules regarding the variety of economic, social, commercial, cultural and political aspects of sports activities.

This regulation may take the form of autonomous self-regulation, e.g. by national and international associations of sport. These private regulations or by-laws, including organisational, disciplinary rules as well as rules of play, constitute the so-called ‘lex sportiva’.

However, the trend towards more professionalism in sport and the growing economic, social and cultural relevance of sport have prompted an increasing reliance on legal rules adopted by the public authorities. These regulations include for example criminal law, labour law, commercial law, tax law and so on, which may vary following a particular type or sector of sport.

Written by Peter McCormick, Clive Lawrence and Richard Verow (Jordan Publishing)

Sport is now big business with clubs, sponsors and agents all trying to capitalise on the marketing opportunities created through an association with a team, player or sporting event. Complex agreements might involve anything from broadcasting rights to product endorsement, but each transaction involves common legal and contractual issues vital to the success of the commercial relationship.

Written by Ivan Waddington and Andy Smith (Routledge)

An Introduction to Drugs in Sport provides a detailed and systematic examination of the extent of drug use in sport and attempts to explain why athletes have, over the last four decades, increasingly used performance-enhancing drugs. Richly illustrated throughout with case studies and empirical data, this book is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the relationship between drugs, sport and society.

• Why do many athletes risk their careers by taking performance-enhancing drugs?
• Do the highly competitive pressures of elite sports teach athletes to win at any cost

Written by John O. Spengler, Paul M. Anderson, Daniel P. Connaughton, Thomas A. Baker III

A comprehensive text on legal issues in sport, Introduction to Sport Law delivers the information students will need and sport management professionals require in order to navigate liability issues, protect the legal rights of their employees and athletes, and manage legal risk in their professions. Filled with real-world cases and examples, the text provides students with timely and relevant information that will help build enthusiasm for their future careers.

The outstanding author team presents legal issues in sport using a topical approach that is easily understood by readers with little or no legal background. Using straightforward, jargon-free explanations, Introduction to Sport Law guides readers through the major legal areas specific to the sport setting—including the legal system, tort law, risk management, contract law, agency law, employment law, constitutional law, gender equity, intellectual property, and antitrust law. The text is designed for sport law courses within a sport management program and uses concise examples relevant to sport managers.

Edited by Adam Lewis and Jonathan Taylor

Contains essential advice on legal issues relating to the 2012 Olympics This is a major textbook on Sports Law in the UK and consolidates guidance across all the major practice areas of interest to sports lawyers.

Written by a team of acknowledged and acclaimed experts, this comprehensive work is essential reading for solicitors and barristers practising sports law, as well as Universities, governing bodies, sports agencies, clubs and commercial firms.

Written by Ian Hewitt

One hundred and one cases where sport, in the UK and the rest of the world, has rubbed up against the law, whether in a court or tribunal.

Ian Hewitt, a member of the management committee of the Wimbledon Championships who as a solicitor helped in the formation of the Premier League, looks at cases as diverse as US baseball’s ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson and the selling of the 1919 World Series to Eric Cantona’s kung-fu attack on a fan in 1995.

Football also supplies Duncan Ferguson and Bobby Moore while among the many other top sports stars appearing are Lester Piggott and Kieren Fallon from horse racing; Ben Johnson and Christine Ohoruogu from athletics; Ian Botham and Hansie Cronje from cricket; Eddie Irvine from motor racing; Tiger Woods from golf; Michael Watson from boxing; Stephen Hendry from snooker; Phil Taylor from darts and Greg Rusedski from tennis.

All have contributed, some reluctantly, to the history of leading sporting encounters with the law.

Hewitt’s own favourite is the upset Leicester soccer fan who sued a referee for shock suffered as a result of the offcial’s penalty decision in the last minute of extra time in an FA Cup tie!

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More than the most prestigious regatta and match race in the sport of sailing, the America’s Cup is a test of boat design, sail design, fundraising, and management skills. It is not surprising that its passionate skippers, builders and managers should often become embroiled in disputes. Recognizing this, and to minimize jurisdictional issues, the Cup’s organization has included its own international jury for over thirty years.

The 31st jury, however, for the first time in the Cup’s long and colourful history, appointed a five-member arbitration tribunal which has now become an established part of the Cup’s ‘corporate’ identity. Although the tribunal’s decisions are not intended to be binding in the future, experience has already proven that they may assist whoever is involved in forthcoming competitions. In validation of this recognition, this book compiles all the decisions issued by the tribunal about cases submitted to the 32nd jury. This entails forty-three decisions in all, encompassing decisions on the merits for thirty-six cases, as well as a series of interim, provisional or partial decisions and, in one case, a dissenting opinion.

Among the subjects of dispute are the following:

* alleged errors in calling a very close finish; * alleged errors in rules resolving a tie; * redress regarding physical damage; * failure of boat electronic system; * allegations of outside help; * scope of advertising on a yacht; * place of yacht construction; * receipt of meteorological data while racing; and * on-board installation of TV equipment.

In addition to the full texts of the decisions, the book includes the America’s Cup Deed of Gift (the ‘constitutional’ document), the Protocol governing the 32nd America’s Cup, Rules of Procedure, Terms of Challenge, and applicable anti-doping and anti-gambling rules. A valuable introduction offers, as well as historical and legal background, some personal perspectives by Jury members.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this subject for practitioners in general is the symbiosis quickly established between the America’s Cup organization and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). At the request of the Cup’s management, WIPO developed a customized web-based facility for the rapid and secure resolution of disputes – a facility now available in the context of other sporting events and for intellectual property disputes in general. With detailed information on this system, along with the book’s many insights into the kinds of issues that fuel disputes in sports events (and their resolutions), Arbitration in the America’s Cup offers a significant extension of the knowledge base available to lawyers and scholars in several branches of law and legal practice.

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This new collection of essays presents nine well-informed and insightful analyses of the ‘specificity’ debate from several distinct points of view. The book reprints the papers presented by outstanding academics as well as representatives of the sport world at a conference on the ‘Future of Sport in the European Union’ held at the Catholic University of Brussels in December 2007. The authors examine the legal and political issues related to the latest developments at the EU level, and their impact on the sport organisations, in order to better understand the future of sport and to answer the questions which will inevitably arise from the new situation.

Among the topics arising in the course of the presentations are the following:

• pure ‘sporting interest’ vs. ‘economic activities’ within the overall meaning of Article 2 EC;
• whether the EU legal order in fact applies to sport activities;
• application of EC law to rules governing the composition of national sports teams, especially as defined in Bosman and Meca Medina cases;
• relation of sport to freedom of association and the principle of subsidiarity;
• initiatives to share use of financial gains from television rights;
• role of bylaws and other regulations of federations at every level;
• responsibility of sport organisations vis-à-vis the rules of public order;
• freedom of labour and free movement of workers as applied to sportsmen and sportswomen;
• the right to privacy, image included;
• the ‘European sport model’;
• protection of young sportsmen and sportswomen from commercial pressures; and
• economic and social role of volunteering activities in sport.

As an analysis of the future directions of EU sport law, this book provides an in-depth assessment of the impact of current policy changes. At a time when a new European treaty is being drafted, and when new questions on sport are being referred to the European Court of Justice, these cogent analyses of European law applicable to professional sport will be of great value to professionals concerned with sport in any of its guises.

Edited by Roger Blanpain, Michele Colucci & Frank Hendrickx
July 2008, 391 pp., paperback
ISBN: 978-90-411-27617
Price: EUR 120.00/ USD 158.00 /GBP 82.00
Available at: www.kluwerlaw.com
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