Sports Law
Protecting the intellectual property of the World Cup
After a twelve-year wait, the 2022 FIFA World Cup kicks off on Sunday in Qatar, the first World Cup to be hosted in the Middle East...
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Sports Law
/ 1 month agoHow sport legislation was affected by the Meca-Medina ruling
In 2006, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivered a landmark judgement in the case initiated by David Meca-Medina and Igor...
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Sports Law
/ 2 months agoAn overview of Malta’s match-fixing legislation
While some countries contain provisions dealing with match-fixing as part of their criminal codes, such as Bulgaria and Spain, Malta has...
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Sports Law
/ 3 months agoThe responsibilities of sporting governing bodies
Over the years gone by, the sporting world has been graced with numerous sporting governing bodies (SGB) being formed worldwide, some...
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Football
/ 6 months agoCompetition rules in the sports sector
The sports industry today is worth billions of dollars. This is largely thanks to the revenue that is generated within the...
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Sports Law
/ 7 months agoSport and the European Union
Although the existence of sport can be traced back as far as 776 BC, it has only featured at the level...
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Sports Law
/ 8 months agoCourt of Arbitration for Sports
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) was founded in 1983 and has its seat in Lausanne, Switzerland which acts as...
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Sports Law
/ 10 months agoThe Olympic Winter Games figure skating doping fiasco
Russia has yet again found itself at the centre of another doping allegation during an Olympic Games, this time during the...
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Sports Law
/ 11 months agoThe Macolin Convention Follow-Up Committee
Following the coming into force of the Macolin Convention on September 1, 2018, the Follow-Up Committee (FUC) was set up in...
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Sports Law
/ 11 months agoArbitration in sport
Arbitration is a form of alternative dispute resolution which is used to resolve a dispute/s outside the judiciary courts. The dispute...
Winter Olympics
Watch: Geisenberger wins sixth Olympic medal to tie luge record
