Every Member State in Europe has a wide discretionary power to choose which specific restrictive measures will be taken to achieve the purpose of containing the consumer's natural propensity to gambling and suppress the incitement to squander money on gambling. To this date Member States have...

Is it possible, a company that is enlisted on the stock market which by definition seeks primarily to increase profits and to protect the investor's interests, instead to protect consumers from the services offered by itself? This public service provided would it not conflict its operation as a...

On the 24th of March 2011 the European Commission issued the so called Green Paper on online gambling in the Internal Market. The European Commission's purpose is to tackle the problems resulting from the rapid development of on-line gambling in the EU. As long as sport betting services...

Every Member State in Europe has a wide discretionary power to choose which specific restrictive measures will be taken to achieve the purpose of containing the consumer's natural propensity to gambling and suppress the incitement to squander money on gambling. To this date Member States have...

ESports explosion is upon us whether we like it or not. The technology behind eSports and the lack of physical movement, makes traditional stakeholders in the sports sector appear very skeptical when asked to support the new trend. The fast rising turnovers, the low cost organizations as well as...

Greek law treats the right to one's name as a special manifestation of the personality right and a breach thereof as an infringement of the personality right as a whole. The right of every natural or legal person to its name includes the right-holder's power to decide if and when to allow the...

In the early 90's the sports establishment attempted to introduce a special legal order called Lex Sportiva. Although it was the first time for sports, other sectors have been known to make efforts to introduce a global legal order. Many years before Lex Mercatoria was proposed by the commercial...

This article by Marios Papaloukas starts by claiming that sports were always considered to perform a State function amongst other functions. When sports authorities were emancipated from the State they started behaving like a common business. Nowadays sports have evolved from a social activity...

This article by Marios Papaloukas, claims that for the last thirty years the athletic community as well as academics are dealing with an effort by the European Court of Justice to influence sport law and the rule-making power of member states in the area of sports. In the present paper the...