ABSTRACT
Sport is subject to a variety of regulatory frameworks and is an area of various legal interventions. At the most basic level, competitors are bound by the rules of the sport in which they compete, whether amateur or professional, and these are often termed the ‘Laws of the Game’ by the Governing Body. There may also be a swathe of administrative regulations that detail who is entitled to play and on what terms set out in the rules of competitions. In some sports, such as boxing and horse racing, competitors are required to be licensed, while in others, even at the amateur and junior level, players will need to be registered with a team, club and/or league to be eligible to play. In a global context, there are also international bodies such as the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) that oversees the regime for drug testing and a specific court for sport-based disputes: the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) (Mavromati and Reed, 2015) which produces its own ‘judgements’ (https://www.tas-cas.org">www.tas-cas.org).
