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The Governance of Sport
ETHN 3104

Tentative Schedule and Readings

Week 2 - January 21

  • Introduction to Issues and Tools

Read: Albergotti and O’Connell

Casini, L. 2010. The Making of a Lex Sportiva: The Court of Arbitration for Sport “Der Ernährer,” Draft paper for the Max Planck Institute International Conference on “Beyond Dispute: International Judicial Institutions as Law-Makers” Heidelberg, June 14-15, 2010.

Szymanski, S. 2003. The Economic Design of Sporting Contests, Journal of Economic Literature, 41:1137-1187.

Preston, I. and S. Szymanski, 2003. Cheating in Contests, Oxford Review of Economic Policy 19:612-624.

Hunt, T. M. 2007. Countering the Soviet Threat in the Olympics medals race: The Amateur Sports Act of 1978 and American Athletics Policy Reform, The International Journal of the History of Sport, 24:796-818.