Sports Law in India

Lovely Dasgupta has been teaching sports law for the last 13 years. She did her LLM, MPhil and PhD from W.B. National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata. She is associated with other subjects such as contract, commercial law, legal education and consumer law. She has published in both national and international journals. Shameek Sen is an Assistant Professor (Law) at NUJS. He specialises in public law disciplines such as constitutional law and media law. He also takes keen interest in human rights, public health law, water law and environmental law. After graduating from NUJS in 2005 as a part of the very first graduating batch of the university and finishing his LLM in 2007 (where he won the prestigious Nani Palkhivala Gold Medal for securing the highest marks in his batch), Sen joined as an Assistant Professor in NUJS. He completed his MPhil in the year 2008 and PhD in the year 2017. His doctoral thesis was titled ‘Right to Freedom of Speech and Expression with Special Reference to Decency and Morality’. He has published journal articles and book chapters on many areas of law, and is presently writing a casebook on constitutional law. He has also been invited to several international and national conferences as a resource person on media and constitutional law issues.

• Foreword - Justice Mukul MudgalPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter I: Constitution and Sports in India - Mahendra Pal Singh and Akhilendra P SinghChapter II: Impact of Non-Profit Laws on Sports in India - P Ishwara BhatChapter III: Current Issues within Sports Law in India - Vidushpat Singhania, Nitin Mittal and Gautam KarhadkarChapter IV: Public Interest Litigation and Sports in India - Shivam Singh and Shreeyash Uday LalitChapter V: Privacy Issues and Sports in India - Agnidipto Tarafder and Carmel SharmaChapter VI: Doping and Sports in India - Richa R MulchandaniChapter VII: Religious Dictates and Sports in India - Saurabh Mishra and Shreya MishraChapter VIII: Arbitration and Sports Disputes in India - Daniel MathewChapter IX: Image Rights and Sports in India - David McArdleChapter X: Broadcasting of Sports in India - Saurabh BhattacharjeeChapter XI: Commercialisation of Sports and Indian Franchise Leagues - Shameek SenChapter XII: Way Forward for Sports in India - Lovely DasguptaIndex

"Sports in India hasn′t evolved, like say, industry has. It has, well, just happened. And so it is necessary to look at the issues that are critical to its governance and even regulation. This book helps do that and so is beneficial not just to sports lawyers, but also to journalists, sportspersons and sports enthusiasts."