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...

This article by Marios Papaloukas focuses in the fact that sport entities have always tried to protect their autonomy from interventions. This status has been seriously put into question by the authorities of the European Communities and especially by the Court of the European Communities. One...

This book contains all case law as well as a theoretical approach to all major issues related to the sports market. More specifically it covers issues such as the emerging independent sports legal order, the principle of exemption of sports formulated by the CJEU, sports betting, as well as...

Sports broadcasting is among the most popular of television programmes. The viewers watching such programmes are usually the ones with the highest purchase capacity, therefore the audience is of particular interest to publicists, as it is considered a very special audience not easily attracted...

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...

As early as the seventies the sports authorities in Europe started a campaign in order to achieve the recognition of a sporting exemption from the European rules. In their view the whole of the sporting activity containing also sports rules issued by them should not be subject to the European...

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...