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- Title
The Olympics, transnational law and legal transplants: the International Olympic Committee, ambush marketing and ticket touting.
- Authors
James, Mark; Osborn, Guy
- Abstract
This paper concerns the origination, development and emergence of what might be termed ' Olympic law'. This has an impact across borders and with transnational effect. It examines the unique process of creation of these laws, laws created by a national legislature to satisfy the commercial demands of a private body, the International Olympic Committee ( IOC). It begins by critically locating the IOC and Olympic law and examining Olympic law as a transnational force. Using two case studies, those of ambush marketing and ticket touting, it demonstrates how private entities can be the drivers of specific, self-interested legislation when operating as a transnational organisation from within the global administrative space and notes the potential dangers of such legal transplants.
- Subjects
INTERNATIONAL Olympic Committee (IOC); OLYMPIC Games; COMPARATIVE law; AMBUSH marketing; TICKET scalping; TRANSNATIONALISM; LAW
- Publication
Legal Studies, 2016, Vol 36, Issue 1, p93
- ISSN
0261-3875
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/lest.12095