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    The Olympics, transnational law and legal transplants: The International Olympic Committee, ambush marketing and ticket touting

    James, M ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6256-611X and Osborn, G (2015) The Olympics, transnational law and legal transplants: The International Olympic Committee, ambush marketing and ticket touting. Legal Studies, 36. ISSN 0261-3875

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    Abstract

    © 2016 The Society of Legal Scholars.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.

    Item Type: Article
    Peer-reviewed: No
    Date Deposited: 13 Jul 2016 13:40
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
    Additional Information: This is an Author Final Copy of a paper accepted for publication in Legal Studies, published by Wiley, copyright The Society of Legal Scholars. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
    Divisions: Faculties > Business and Law
    URI: https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/616000
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/lest.12095
    ISSN 0261-3875

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