Parrish Richard, Sports Law and Policy in the European Union

Manchester University Press, 2003. — 280 p. — ISBN: 0-7190-6606-9.The goal of this book is to inform the reader how the law influences the operation, administration and playing of modern sports. The book focuses on legal doctrine, and it has been written bearing in mind sport's historical, cultural, social and economic context. The writer attempts to prove the existence of the body of law known as "sports law". Author argues that the development of sport is impossible without legal ground.AcknowledgementsThe birth of EU sports law and policy
Towards a theory of EU sports law and policy
The sports policy subsystem
Sport and the European Court of Justice
Sport and EU competition law
Reconciling sport and law
The future of EU sports law and policy
Appendix A: The Bosman ruling
Appendix B: The Helsinki report on sportTables of statutes, cases, decisions and reports