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Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this practical analysis of sports law in Poland deals with the regulation of sports activity by both public authorities and private sports organizations. The growing internationalization of sports inevitably increases the weight of global regulation, yet each country maintains its own distinct regime of sports law and its own national and local sports organizations. Sports law at a national or organizational level thus gains a growing relevance in comparative law. The book describes and discusses both state-created rules and autonomous self-regulation regarding the variety of economic, social, commercial, cultural, and political aspects of sports activities. Self- regulation manifests itself in the form of by-laws, and encompasses organizational provisions, disciplinary rules, and rules of play. However, the trend towards more professionalism in sports and the growing economic, social and cultural relevance of sports have prompted an increasing reliance on legal rules adopted by public authorities. This form of regulation appears in a variety of legal areas, including criminal law, labour law, commercial law, tax law, competition law, and tort law, and may vary following a particular type or sector of sport. It is in this dual and overlapping context that such much-publicized aspects as doping, sponsoring and media, and responsibility for injuries are legally measured. This monograph fills a gap in the legal literature by giving academics, practitioners, sports organizations, and policy makers access to sports law at this specific level. Lawyers representing parties with interests in Poland will welcome this very useful guide, and academics and researchers will appreciate its value in the study of comparative sports law.

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Eligiusz Jerzy Krzesniak - Professor of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Lazarski University in Warsaw, Poland; attorney-at-law; managing partner of the Polish Office of the global law firm, Squire Patton Boggs, and arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland. A graduate of the University of Wroclaw, Poland, he also studied at universities in Germany (Philipps-Universit t in Marburg and Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit t in Bonn) and the United States (University of North Carolina at Charlotte). Many of his papers on Polish, German and American commercial and sports law have been published in recognized journals and he is the author and co-author of several legal monographs and books (including Sp lka partnerska ze szczeg lnym uwzglednieniem sp lek adwokat w i radc w prawnych (Limited Liability Partnerships, Especially Partnerships of Attorneys-at-Law), Zakamycze 2002; Sp lka partnerska w systemie prawa niemieckiego i prawa amerykanskiego (A Limited Liability Partnerships in the German Law and U.S. Laws) Zakamycze 2003; and Kluby i organizacje sportowe w prawie polskim na tle rozwiazan zagranicznych (Sports Clubs and Sports Organizations under Polish Law Compared to Foreign Solutions), Wolters Kluwer 2016). He served as an arbitrator in an arbitral panel, a sole arbitrator or the chairman of the arbitral panel in a number of arbitration cases in the two leading courts of arbitration in Poland - the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Chamber of Commerce and the Court of Arbitration at the Polish Confederation Lewiatan; he has also settled international commercial disputes in ad hoc arbitration. The author chairs the committee on discipline and rules at the Polish Golf Union and, until recently, was the chairman of the supervisory board of Alior Bank S.A., one of Poland's top ten banks listed on the stock exchange; in the past, he has also been deputy chairman of the supervisory board of Poland's largest bank, PKO BP and a member of the supervisory board of Poland's largest insurance company, PZU S.A. He has been recommended for years as a leading lawyer in Poland, including in the Chambers Europe and Legal 500 rankings.

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