ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a critical comment upon law and governance within international sport. The issues of sports governance and sports law have been freely used in contemporary discussions about the sporting world (Glendinning, 2009). The theme of governance has a prominent place in discussions about global sport and whether or not it is possible, or even desirable, to develop a more progressive approach towards the reform of sporting structures, regulations, practices and laws. We know that the duality of sport means that it unites and divides, is fair and foul, healthy and destructive, expressive and controlled, myth and reality, and both public and private in terms of team ownership. Living with an increasingly international entity that is sport today involves a mutual responsibility for all that comes with twenty-first-century sport. Arguably, the enduring moral problem of global sport is the vast gap between and within different sporting worlds. One thing that, so far, has escaped global sport has been the collective ability to act globally.
