1st Edition
EU Antitrust Law and Sport Governance The Next Frontier?
1 Introduction: The slow yet steady rise of EU sports antitrust law (1982–2022)
Jacob Kornbeck
2 A motor of change? EU antitrust law and sports governance from Meca-Medina to the European Superleague
Ben Van Rompuy
3 The International Skating Union case: On a mission to defend the weaker party?
Rusa Agafonova
4 The Superleague concept in European football in the light of EU competition law
Dennis Cukurov
5 The application of antitrust legislation by Swiss courts in cases involving international sports governing bodies
Margareta Baddeley
6 Should organising premier-level European football be a monopoly? And who should run it? – An economists’perspective
Oliver Budzinski and Arne Feddersen
7 On the economic and legal stakes of independent sport leagues: The case of football
Mickaël Terrien and Jean-Loup Chappelet
8 Antitrust law, sport and the European social model: An Olympic choice
Walter S. Palmer
9 Conclusion: EU antitrust law and the future of the sports pyramid and the ‘one federation’ principle
Jacob Kornbeck
Biography
Jacob Kornbeck is a Policy Officer in the European Commission and a former member of its Sport Unit (2001-14), where he was involved in the elaboration of the White Paper (COM(2007) 391) and the Communication on Sport (COM(2011) 12). An external Lecturer at the German Sport University in Cologne, Germany (sports management) and the University of Lille, France (sports law), he has published in the fields of sports law and policy, as well as social policy and social work.
