🚨 New article by @prof-mark-james.bsky.social and Guy Osborn: "Defining the Olympic legal framework and the IOC’s lawmaking capability: lex Olympica, Olympic law, and their relationships with lex sportiva and sports law" in the International Sports Law Journal. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🚨 New Book Alert! 🌍📘
Ash Murphy’s Climate Change at the UN Security Council: Protecting Pacific and Caribbean Island States is out now with Routledge (2025).
A vital read on climate, security & small island states. Available here: www.routledge.com/Climate-Chan...
Coming soon at @thesohopoly.bsky.social this brilliant new play Outside Voice 1-5 July, tickets available here sohopoly.co.uk/events/outsi... PLEASE RT!
#ECJ #AG Emiliou: #Sports governing bodies cannot freely self-regulate when their rules have a significant impact on areas covered by #EUlaw #football 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
In just 100 days, the Trump administration has inflicted enormous damage to human rights in the United States and around the world.
To mark the first 100 days of President Trump's second term, Human Rights Watch has cataloged 100 of the administration’s human rights harms 🧵⤵️
NEW from #HRW: Interactive feature cataloguing 100 human rights harms in Trump administration's first 100 days. www.hrw.org/feature/2025...
Which swear words do Britons find the most offensive?
C*nt: 82% say very or fairly offensive
Motherf*cker: 70%
Fatherf*cker: 62%
B*tch: 55%
F*ck: 53%
W*nker: 53%
B*stard: 45%
P*ssy: 44%
Pr*ck: 42%
Tw*t: 40%
A*sehole: 39%
D*ckhead: 39%
Son of b*tch: 36%
C*ck: 34%
Full list in the chart 👇
Call for Papers for the International Sports Law Journal Conference 2025. The Conference will review the first 25 years of the WADA Code & look to where it may go next. More details available here: www.asser.nl/SportsLaw/Bl...
Hope to see you in The Hague on 6 & 7 November #sportslaw
More information on the ISLJ can be found here: www.linkedin.com/posts/mark-j... and a copy of Vol1(1) here: www.linkedin.com/posts/mark-j... #sportslaw
The International #SportsLaw Journal is celebrating its 25th Anniversary this year. The new issue is available here: link.springer.com/journal/4031... with a brief history of the ISLJ here: link.springer.com/article/10.1....
The ISLJ archive of volumes 2-12 is here: www.asser.nl/sportslaw/pu...
Human rights issues in sports governance have threatened the core values of sport. Featuring experts' discussion, together with the @sportandrights.bsky.social, we will discuss contemporary #sports governance and find ways to address its #HumanRights challenges.
New publication! 🎉
Dr James Brown has published an online annual review for LawInSport titled ‘Sport, Safety and Participation - Annual Review 2024/25’. The article is available here: www.lawinsport.com/topics/item/....
#SportsLaw
Thanks @shubhamjain224.bsky.social . Looking forward to reading the judgment!
New paper from @guyosborn.bsky.social & me in the Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie: "Law 3.0: Technology and Law in the Entertainment Industry – The Case of Ticket Touting." Available at: doi.org/10.1515/zfrs...
#sportslaw
Important new #Sportslaw paper on #CAS by my colleague Johan Lindholm from @umeauniversitet.bsky.social.
It highlights the influence of experienced arbitrators on CAS awards & the advantage of SGBs in identifying & selecting them.
It's available open access at academic.oup.com/arbitration/...
New #sportslaw article on the International Sports Law Journal:
A systematic literature review of esports integrity, by Erika Riedl & Pim Verschuuren: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New #sportslaw article on the International Sports Law Journal:
Sports governing body responses to coach-athlete violence in Finland and the UK, by Antti Aine, Eleanor Drywood & Jatta Muhonen: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Great to see that the new Routledge Handbook on Sports Law and Governance is now out, including my chapter, The IOC and Olympic Law: Scoping the Regulatory Space of the IOC: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
Thanks to Annette Greenhow & John Wolohan for pulling it all together! #sportslaw
More info on our new LLM International Sports Law & Governance @mmulawresearch.bsky.social:
Video: youtu.be/apKjgtTtOZ8?...
Info: www.mmu.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Open Days: www.mmu.ac.uk/study/open-d...
#sportslaw
This is fantastic! This website allows you to watch TV stations from around the world. I just watched 2 minutes of Afghan volleyball. All the small regional TV stations from Germany are here too. Spread the word! Source: tv.garden
Copyright infringement is not my legal forte.
But if there is any way of taking legal action against Meta for benefiting from the theft of my intellectual property, I am absolutely going to do so.
CJEU, sports law/consumer law
New judgment: contract to train minor in sports falls within scope of unfair contract terms directive - CJEU indicates what aspects might (or might not) be considered unfair -
Full text - curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...
Press release curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...
This from @JulesBoykoff is well worth a read on what the next IOC President should be focusing on when they take office... #sportslaw
The American Medical Association has a youtube page; they are doing daily updates on bird flu and other outbreaks since the CDC isn't allowed to.
Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being.➡️ www.youtube.com/@americanmed...
Submit your abstracts for the upcoming 2025 CLEER conference on how evolving institutional dynamics are challenging the EU's foreign policy.
🚨 Deadline: 30 April 2025
Read the full call
Liverpool fans affected by the chaos surrounding the 2022 Champions League final in Paris have the right to have their personal injury claims heard in the UK, a judge has ruled after an attempt by Uefa to block it. By @robynvinter.bsky.social for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
🚨New publication from Manchester Law School Staff:
@prof-mark-james.bsky.social and Sarah Carrick have both contributed chapters to The Routledge Handbook on Sports Law and Governance.
More info here: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
I've driven much of that route - it's spectacular!
That's one hell of an opening stage!
Really interesting new article in the International Sports Law Journal: Balancing the benefits and risks of traditional medicine in sports: a study of anti-doping controls and compliance by Sheik Inan Ul Mansoor. Available at: link.springer.com/article/10.1.... #sportslaw
