The article is a
review of the scientific monograph Sports and Law,
which was published this summer and was edited by Vesna Bergant Rakočević, PhD. The book presents the rapid development of
sports law in the ten years that have passed since the publication of the last
book dedicated to this legal field in Slovenia. It consists of eleven chapters written by seventeen authors,
dealing with the legal basis of competitive sport
and its organisation, the issue of sport autonomy,
liability in sport, the emergence of sport in European Union law,
the marketing of the image of athletes, the social rights of athletes
and coach- es, sponsorship and endorsement in sport, television rights, the
prevention of doping and the resolution of sports disputes before the Court of
Arbitration for Sport.
Keywords:
sport, sports law, autonomy of sport, sports
organisations, damages liability, sponsorship, endorsement,
doping, sports arbitration.