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Sports Law: its History and Growth and the Development of Key Sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2012

Simon Boyes
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Abstract

In this article Simon Boyes traces the development of the discipline of sports law as represented and effected by the literature in the field. The article identifies different aspects of sports law and the various levels and locations within which it operates and identifies the leading academic and practitioner works associated with each. The article also considers the major developments in the field and the way in which they have shaped the sports law literature.

Keywords

sports lawsport and the lawlegal sources
Type
Sports Law
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , June 2012 , pp. 86 - 91
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2012. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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