European sports law collected papers second edition contains the collected works 1989 2012 of stephen weatherill jacques delors professor of european community law somerville college university of oxford united kingdom with an extensive introduction on the background and rationale for the selected papers. European sports law is incapable of recognising the specificities of sport the basis of whether european sports law is incapable of recognising the specificities of sport is the subject of debate in this essay it will be structured as followed part one will provide a brief explanation of what the specificities of sport is whilst also examining why the business of sport is treated differently from normal businesses part two will interrogate how the institutions of the . European sports law collected papers 2nd edition contains the collected works 1989 2012 of stephen weatherill jacques delors professor of european community law somerville college university of oxford united kingdom with an extensive introduction on the background and rationale for the selected papers. This book is an introduction to sports law in particular international worldwide and european sports law after addressing the core concept of sport specificity that is whether private sporting rules and regulations can be justified notwithstanding they are not in conformity with public law the author dwells on specific themes capita selecta the character of sports law the