This article by Marios Papaloukas starts by claiming that sports were always considered to perform a State function amongst other functions. When sports authorities were emancipated from the State they started behaving like a common business. Nowadays sports have evolved from a social activity...

This article by Marios Papaloukas, claims that for the last thirty years the athletic community as well as academics are dealing with an effort by the European Court of Justice to influence sport law and the rule-making power of member states in the area of sports. In the present paper the...