Esports - lex sportiva or lex mercatoria?

Leonid Shmatenko, Oleksandr Volkov and Rodolphe Ruffié-Farrugia

Chapter Chapter 3 in Esports Law and Practice, 2025, pp 27-43 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter is dedicated to the question of possible application of Lex SportivaLex Sportiva in esports-related disputes by arbitrators. The chapter examines similarities between the traditional sports and esports, the sporting merits in those and the extent of possible applicability of Lex Sportiva. It also studies the ‘rules of the game’ of esports from traditional sports perspective and other analogies and comparison between the two industries.

Keywords: E-Sports; Jurisdiction; Arbitration; Court of Arbitration for Sport; Commercial arbitration; Rules of the game (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803925998
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