In December 1995 the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered its judgment in its most
famous case to date: the Bosman case. Twenty years later this book explores in detail how this
landmark judgment legally and politically transformed the relationship between the European
Union and sport. Written by leading academics in the field the ten contributions in this book
reflect on how Bosman fundamentally shaped the application of EU law to sport and its
transformative effects on sports governance. The book's innovative perspectives on the Bosman
ruling makes it important reading for scholars practitioners and policy-makers concerned with
EU law and Sports law. With a foreword by Prof. Dr. Carl Otto Lenz Advocate General at the
Court of Justice in the Bosman-case.Dr. Antoine Duval is Senior Researcher for International
and European Sports Law at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in The Hague. He holds a Ph.D. on the
interaction between Lex Sportiva and EU Law from the European University Institute in Florence
where he was the conveyor of the Transnational Law Working Group. Prof. dr. Ben Van Rompuy is a
senior researcher at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut where he heads the ASSER International Sports
Law Centre and is Visiting Professor of Competition Policy at the Free University of Brussels
(VUB). He holds a Ph.D. in law from the VUB and held visiting scholar positions at Georgetown
University and New York University.The book appears in the ASSER International Sports Law
Series under the editorship of Prof. Dr. Ben Van Rompuy Dr. Antoine Duval and Marco van der
Harst LL.M.
