Sports and Law: Finding a Balance Between the Game and the Rules

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Suzana Kraljić (Ed.)
University of Maribor, Faculty of Law
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4438-6457
Cocou Marius Mensah (Ed.)
University of Maribor, Faculty of Law
https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6945-1891
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18690/um.pf.1.2026

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sports law, dispute resolution, human rights protections, artifical intelligence, athlete transfers, contract law

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The academic monograph “Sports and Law: Finding a Balance Between the Game and the Rules” addresses current and carefully selected topics in the field of ‘sports law’. It represents a significant contribution to the development of sports law, which has been increasingly developed in recent decades as an independent and interdisciplinary legal field. It brings together contributions from authors in Slovenia, Croatia, the U.S., Türkiye, Azerbaijan, and Slovakia. It addresses current issues related to the relationship between sports as a social phenomenon and law as a system of rules governing this field. The central idea of the monograph is the search for a balance between two seemingly opposing worlds: between ‘play’ or ‘sport’, which is based on spontaneity, competitiveness, and the rules of the game, and ‘law’, which introduces formal norms, sanctions, and institutional oversight. Sports law is not a uniform, codified branch of law, but rather an interweaving of various legal fields, such as contract law, labor law, criminal law, and human rights law, among others. The monograph offers an in-depth look at the complex field of sports law and highlights the need for a balanced approach that considers the specificities of sports as well as fundamental legal principles.

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Suzana Kraljić (Ed.), University of Maribor, Faculty of Law

Dr. Suzana Kraljić is a full professor at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Law. She teaches and researches family law (especially child law), medical law, and succession law. She is head of the Center for Medical Law, Faculty of Law, University of Maribor. She is/was the holder of five bilateral and four students projects. She has also cooperated in various international projects. She was a visiting lecturer at the Masaryk University, University of Bucharest, Leibnitz University Hannover, ELTE Budapest, University of Istanbul, University of Malta, University of Lisboa… Her bibliography encompasses several books and a number of book chapters and articles, published in national and foreign journals. For the monograph 'Pravni izzivi skrbništva' (Legal Challenges of Guardianship), she received the award from the Ministry responsible for family affairs in 2022.

Maribor, Slovenia. E-mail: suzana.kraljic@um.si

Cocou Marius Mensah (Ed.), University of Maribor, Faculty of Law

Maribor, Slovenia. E-mail: cocou.mensah@um.si

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July 20, 2026

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L, S

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978-961-299-176-0

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285400835

Date of first publication (11)

2026-07-20

How to Cite

Kraljić, S., & Mensah, C. M. (Eds.). (2026). Sports and Law: Finding a Balance Between the Game and the Rules. University of Maribor Press. https://doi.org/10.18690/um.pf.1.2026