Transnational Sports Law: The Living Lex Sportiva

2021 ◽  
pp. 492-512
Author(s):  
Antoine Duval
Keyword(s):  
Daily Practice ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Sports Law ◽  
Transnational Law ◽  
Intimate Connection ◽  
Lex Sportiva

This chapter focuses on the emergence of a transnational sports law, or lex sportiva, ruling international sports. In the transnational law literature, the lex sportiva is often referred to as a key example, but rarely studied in practice. Yet, it constitutes an important playground for transnational legal practice, and this chapter aims to show why. The focus is first on the ensemble of rules of the lex sportiva produced through a variety of lawmaking procedures located within different institutions. The second section identifies the processes and institutions making the lex sportiva in its daily practice. Finally, while the lex sportiva is often presented as an autonomous transnational legal construct detached from territorialized legal and political contexts, the this section of the chapter aims to show that in practice it operates in intimate connection with them. Hence, its transnational operation is much less characterized by full autonomy than assemblage.

DIREITO TRANSNACIONAL E LEX SPORTIVA: O CASO BOSMAN E O DIÁLOGO REFLEXIVO ENTRE ORDENS JURÍDICAS ESTATAIS E NÃO ESTATAISTRANSNATIONAL LAW AND LEX SPORTIVA: THE BOSMAN CASE AND THE REFLEXIVE DIALOGUE BETWEEN STATE AND NON STATE LEGAL ORDERS

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (14) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mateus de Oliveira Fornasier (Unijuí/RS) ◽  
Thiago dos Santos da Silva (Unijuí/RS)
Keyword(s):  
Transnational Law ◽  
Lex Sportiva

O objetivo geral deste trabalho é observar como os processos multicêntricos do sistema jurídico permitem o diálogo entre ordens jurídicas de diferentes níveis, possibilitando falar-se em um Direito Global. Como hipótese principal, sugere-se que tem ocorrido, a partir do século XX (pelo menos), a emergência de um Direito Global, o qual pressupõe não apenas as comunicações atinentes ao Estado (leis, tratados/convenções, regulamentos, jurisprudência de Cortes estatais), mas também, de outras ordens não estatais – tais como a lex sportiva. Esse Direito Global, quando assim observado, é compreendido como reflexivo não apenas em relação às suas próprias comunicações, ocorrendo também verdadeiros diálogos entre ordens das mais variadas origens (estatais ou não). Objetivos específicos: i) descrever a Lex Sportiva, ordem jurídica transnacional, decorrente da relação reflexiva entre o Direito e a regulação esportiva; ii) analisar o transconstitucionalismo como metodologia dialogal-reflexiva para a observação da lex sportiva; iii) analisar o caso do atleta Jean-Marc Bosman, que desencadeou evolução nas relações profissionais entre atletas e clubes, a partir da segunda metade da década de 1990, exemplo de diálogo reflexivo entre a lex sportiva e ordens jurídicas estatais.

The legal phenomenon of lex sportiva in the international sports law

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 168-183
Author(s):  
Artem Bredikhin
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulation ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Sports Law ◽  
National Legislation ◽  
Sports Organizations ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Lex Sportiva ◽  
Lex Mercatoria ◽  
Special Rules

The development of sports law is directly related to the nature of sports, whose legal relations must have uniformity and stability, achieved through regulation by special rules created by international and national sports organizations – lex sportiva. This paper is devoted to lex sportiva as one of the most important tools for regulating cross-border relations in the field of sports. The author examines the origin and legal nature of lex sportiva as well as its impact on national legislation in the field of sports. Moreover, the author elaborates on possible meanings of this notion: lex sportiva as a set of rules of self-regulation, as a set of decisions of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, as a legal principle, as a phenomenon of implementation, and as a criterion for determining the amount of compensation. The author discusses the use of lex sportiva by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in the context of dispute resolution, since this court has formed an extensive judicial practice throughout its existence, which, together with the rules of national and international sports organizations, forms an important part of lex sportiva. In this regard, the author draws parallels with the related source of cross-border law – lex mercatoria, and also considers situations in which there are conflicts between lex sportiva and the norms of international law and rules of national legislation. In the field of sports, such legal conflicts are resolved by the principle of lex specialis derogat legi generali, according to which the rules of lex sportiva prevail over national law, providing a principle for the autonomy of sports. The first mention of the recognition of this principle is contained in the sources of law of the European Union. Finally, the author comes to the conclusion that the generally recognized two-dimensional understanding of lex sportiva as a doctrine and as a set of norms of self-regulation in sports is outdated, since it does not fully reveal the essence of the legal phenomenon, since it does not reflect all its properties which are manifested in the situations of legal regulation of relationships in the sports field. The exclusive role of lex sportiva is predicted to resolve international legal and organizational conflicts in the field of sports caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals Idiosyncrasies of Sports Law in Sailing Regattas

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-165
Author(s):  
Moreno Pajković
Keyword(s):  
General Notion ◽  
Sports Law ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
Lex Sportiva ◽  
Interdisciplinary Character ◽  
Basic Features

The aim of this paper is to outline a segment of lex sportiva that is grounded in the idiosyncrasies of the internal rules of the hearing procedure in sports sailing whereby the fundamental principles and concepts of sports law as well as the bodies involved in the process of forming sports law are being analysed. For this purpose, the general notion of sailing, its theoretical systematization and the basic features of its sports variant will be presented, in the context of which the organization, rules and regulations will be considered i.e. basic documents including the fundamental legal principles of sports law represented in the relevant sport, all of which for the purpose of re-establishing the sports law, its concept and nature i.e. its potentially interdisciplinary character. To this extent, the re-establishment of sports law and its specific features will be highlighted particularly through appropriate examples of court and arbitration practices as well as the specific rules of sports sailing, part of which are also the rules on the hearing procedure which will be roughly presented and thereby their compliance with the fundamental principles of sports law will be accordingly analysed.

Lex Sportiva: A Playground for Transnational Law

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 822-842 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoine Duval
Keyword(s):  
Transnational Law ◽  
Lex Sportiva
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