The Court of Arbitration for Sport and Its Jurisprudence An Empirica

This book takes a close look at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), challenging existing claims and answering previously unanswered questions, by considering all of its publicly available decisions, both in its entirety as a body of jurisprudence an

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The Court of Arbitration for Sport and Its Jurisprudence An Empirical Inquiry into Lex Sportiva

Johan Lindholm

ASSER International Sports Law Series

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Johan Lindholm

The Court of Arbitration for Sport and Its Jurisprudence An Empirical Inquiry into Lex Sportiva

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Johan Lindholm Department of Law Umeå University Umeå, Sweden

ISSN 1874-6926 ISSN 2215-003X (electronic) ASSER International Sports Law Series ISBN 978-94-6265-284-2 ISBN 978-94-6265-285-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-285-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018966862 Published by T.M.C. ASSER PRESS, The Hague, The Netherlands www.asserpress.nl Produced and distributed for T.M.C. ASSER PRESS by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg © T.M.C. ASSER PRESS and the author 2019 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. This T.M.C. ASSER PRESS imprint is published by the registered company Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE part of Springer Nature The registered company address is: Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin, Germany

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Preface

If I had to write one of those snappy back cover blurbs for this book, I might go with “a book written by a law geek for other law geeks”. I first encountered and began conducting empirical studies of large sets of legal materials about six years ago. Ever since I began working on my doctoral thesis, I have had one foot in constitutional law and particularly the constitutional law of the European Union. Researching EU law inevitably involves sifting through a substantial number of decisions by the Court of Justice, searching for patterns and meaning that are sometimes rather obscure. It has the