1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook on Sports Law and Governance
Introduction—Sport in the 21st Century: A Complex, Evolving and Challenging Landscape
Annette Greenhow and John Wolohan
PART I: Regulatory Models and Governance Systems
1 The IOC and Olympic Law: Scoping the Regulatory Space of the IOC
Mark James
2 Sports Governance and the Rule of Law
Robby Houben
3 Who’s Running the Play? The Role of the European Union in Sports Regulations
Andrea Cattaneo
4 The NCAA Amateurism Model and Its Recent Decline
William W. Berry III
5 Deterring Regulation through the Threat of Sportspocalypse
Dionne Koller
6 The Regulation of Sports Agents
John Wolohan
7 The Legal, Ethical and Moral Questions Surrounding the Role of a League Commissioner
Rick Burton and John Wolohan
PART II: Regulating Integrity and Governance Failures
8 Sports Corruption
Catherine Ordway, Mark Dodds and Joanna Tweedie
9 Regulating Doping: The USADA Model
Daniel Gandert
10 When ‘Legally Good Enough’ Is Not Enough: Non-Disclosure Agreements and The Hockey Canada Governance Crisis
Ryan Gauthier
11 Governing Sports Federations: Debates in Japan and Their International Dimensions
Masayuki Tamaruya
12 Sports Gambling
Eric Windholz
PART III: Regulating Sport Equity, Access and Safety
13 An Analysis of the Equal Pay Debates in Women’s Football
Sarah Carrick
14 Gender, Sports Regulation and Law
Seema Patel
15 Anti-Racism Regulatory Framework in International Sports Governance Bodies
Fei Gao
16 Safeguarding Vulnerable Participants in Sport
Anneli Hyman and Steve Cornelius
17 Regulating Dangerous Sports
Jack Anderson
18 Club Doctors and Concussion Injury Management: A Cross-Jurisdictional Review of Conflicts of Interest in Professional Football
Betsy Grey and Annette Greenhow
PART IV: Regulating Disputes
19 Judicial Precedent and Lex Sportiva: In Search of Harmonisation, Consistency and Legal Certainty
Gregory Ioannidis
20 The Regulatory Space of Arbitration in Baseball
Matt Nichol
21 Applicable Law for Football Disputes in the Court of Arbitration for Sport and a Review on Chinese Football Cases
Xiang Huiying
22 Sports Law in New Zealand—A Central Role in the Nation’s Economy and Regulation
Elizabeth Toomey
Future Directions
John Wolohan and Annette Greenhow
Biography
Annette Greenhow is a legal academic from the Faculty of Law, Bond University. Since 2010, Annette has researched the area of sports-related concussion, examining the regulatory, governance and policy-making roles of state and non-state actors. Annette holds a PhD from Monash University investigating the regulation of concussion in Australian sport, a Master of Laws (Bond) and Bachelor of Laws (QUT). As an Australian legal practitioner, Annette held senior management positions in small, medium and large firms over an extensive legal practice career. She is a Committee Member of the Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Association Inc. and Editor of the Bond University Sports Law and Governance Journal.
John Wolohan is a professor of Sports Law in the Syracuse University Falk College of Sport and a Professor of Law by courtesy appointment in the College of Law at Syracuse University. Professor Wolohan has been teaching and working in the fields of sports law, gaming law and sports media rights for over 25 years. In addition to making numerous national and international presentations, Professor Wolohan has edited and authored several books on sports-related topics.
