An examination of the special character of sport through European law's microscope reveals the scope of European trade law's adaptability to the particular context in which it is applied. The story of European sports law told through the case law illuminates the way in which European law is exploited by actors as a lever to prise open sometimes long-established organisational patterns. Sport has in recent years become more commercialised and more juridified too. The challenges to its self-regulatory preferences have strengthened and European law plays a significant part in this narrative. It is testimony to the pragmatic and creative approach of the European Commission and the European Court of Justice to the regulation of sport within the Single Market of the European Union, even though there is no specific provision in the EC Treaty giving the EU competence in the field of sport.

Autorentext

Stephen Weatherill is Jacques Delors Professor of European Community Law at Somerville College, University of Oxford.

Inhalt
Discrimination on Grounds of Nationality in Sport.- European Football Law.- Annotation [bosman Case].- 0033149875354: Fining the Organisers of the 1998 Football World Cup.- Sports Under Ec Competition Law and Us Antitrust Law.- The Helsinki Report on Sport.- Resisting the Pressures Of 'Americanization': the Influence of European Community Law on the 'European Sport Model'.- 'Fair Play Please!': Recent Developments in the Application of Ec Law to Sport.- Sport as Culture in Ec Law.- Anti-Doping Rules and Ec Law.- Is the Pyramid Compatible with Ec Law?.- The Sale of Rights to Broadcast Sporting Events Under Ec Law.- Anti-Doping Revisited the Demise of the Rule of 'Purely Sporting Interest'?.- Concluding Remarks.