ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a critical comment on governance, corruption and gambling within international sport. The issues of sports governance have been freely used in contemporary discussions about the sporting world in two broad ways: governance within sport itself; and broader legalities that have brought into question whether contemporary sport is fit and proper to govern itself, or whether the law should intervene further. The chapter has reviews different potential forms of regulation and governance that may or may not impact on sport. It is inevitable that, as sport becomes more and more enmeshed with the world of finance, then the law and lawyers in different parts of the world are sure to benefit first and foremost. At the very least, sporting organisations have to be increasingly accountable and transparent and be aggressive about representing key community or local stakeholders in the governance of sports organisations.
