The Legacy of Bosman

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Introduction

   • Antoine Duval, Ben Van Rompuy

   Pages 1-12

3. He Was not Alone: Bosman in Context

   • Borja García

   Pages 13-30

4. Bosman: A Legacy Beyond Sports

   • Mattias Derlén, Johan Lindholm

   Pages 31-49

5. Nationality Based Playing Quotas and the International Transfer System Post-Bosman

   • Simon Gardiner, Roger Welch

   Pages 51-80

6. The FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players: Transnational Law-Making in the Shadow of Bosman

   • Antoine Duval

   Pages 81-116

7. EU Competition Law and Organisational Rules

   • Katarina Pijetlovic

   Pages 117-151

8. EU Control of State Aid to Professional Sport: Why Now?

   • Ben Van Rompuy, Oskar van Maren

   Pages 153-185

9. The European Social Dialogue: A New Mode of Governance for European Football?

   • Richard Parrish

   Pages 187-211

10. Governing in the Shadow of Bosman: A Principal-Agent Perspective on Sports Governance and the EU

    • Arnout Geeraert

    Pages 213-232

11. The Lex Sportiva and EU Law: The Academic Lawyer’s Path Before and After Bosman

    • Stephen Weatherill

    Pages 233-250

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.

• EU Law
• Sports Law
• Free Movement
• Competition
• Court of Justice of the EU

“Each Chapter of the Book is complemented by References to helpful additional reading and source materials. … This Book is a welcome and useful addition to the literature on international sports law and the Editors and the Publishers are to be warmly congratulated on producing and publishing it. I am sure that it will deservedly enjoy a wide and appreciative readership.” (Prof. Dr. Ian Blackshaw, SportsAndTaxation.com, February, 2017)

• ASSER International Sports Law Centre, T.M.C. Asser Instituut, The Hague, The Netherlands

  Antoine Duval, Ben Van Rompuy

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