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Legal relations between professional athletes and sports clubs in team sports
Růžička, Hynek ; Kohout, David (advisor) ; Beran, Karel (referee)
Legal relations between professional athletes and sports clubs in team sports Abstract The presented rigorosum thesis focuses on the legal relations between professional athletes and sports clubs in team sports. The thesis investigates professional sports contracts concluded between professional athletes and highest-level sports clubs in the Czech Republic and abroad across various fields of collective sports, in particular, contracts in ice hockey, football, basketball and cycling. The presented thesis compares domestic contracts with international professional sports contracts concluded under the most prestigious sports competitions in the USA and contracts from the Finnish top ice hockey league. The legal status of professional athletes in the Czech Republic as subjects of legal relations is examined in detail before the professional sports contracts are assessed. Consecutively, the admissibility of particular contractual arrangements under specific legal regulations is evaluated. In particular, the legal status of professional athletes is analysed in the light of the case law of the supreme courts of the Czech Republic. Moreover, the CJEU case law and its long-standing decision-making practice in this area are considered. The interpretation includes an assessment of national, European and international...
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