1st Edition

Olympic Laws Culture, Values, Tensions

By Mark James, Guy Osborn Copyright 2024
122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

Olympic Laws: Culture, Values, Tensions is the first book to analyse fully the Olympic legal framework and its application to the IOC and the Olympic Games through a socio-legal lens. It opens up a new window into understanding the Olympic Games across recent iterations of the Games and on to future Games. The book begins by defining the parameters of the emergent legal sub-fields of Sports... Read more
  1. The Olympics: Culture, Values, Tension
  2. The Curious Case of the IOC and the Creation of Olympic Law
  3. Income and Earnings at the Olympic Games
  4. Freedom of Expression and the Olympics
  5. Recalibrating the Olympics: Misplaced Leverage and a Relational Turn?

Biography

Mark James is Professor of Sports Law at the Manchester Law School at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Guy Osborn is Professor of Law at Westminster Law School, University of Westminster, UK.

“Beyond making an important contribution to sports law, [James and Osborn’s] analysis also drives forward debates in the social and political scientific study of sport, and will figure as an important resource for researchers and students within all these areas in the years to come.” – Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen, Liverpool John Moores University, idrottsforum.org