While much has been written about the European Union (EU), most of the scholarly work is concerned with the developments at the European level. It is only recently, that we observe increasing attempts to address this research deficit. Notwithstanding a growing number of studies explicitly...

The case of the German world class athlete Dieter Baumann serves as an example for the exploration of concurring regulatory structures resulting from the existence of multiple regulatory systems. After an analysis of these systems we explore the causes of their existence on the national and the...