Saving Football from Itself: Why and How to Re-make EU Sports Law: The 2022 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture

The CELS Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture Podcast

Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

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🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) hosts an annual public lecture in honour of Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, the first British Judge to be President of the Court of Justice. Among the eminent scholars of European legal studies invited to give the lecture are Professor Joseph Weiler, former Judge David Edwards of the European Court of Justice, and Advocate-General Francis Jacobs of the European Court of Justice. The texts of the Mackenzie-Stuart Lectures are published in the Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies. The 2022 Mackenzie-Stuart Lecture was delivered by Professor Stephen Weatherill (Emeritus Jacques Delors Professor of European Law, Oxford University) under the title 'Saving Football from Itself: Why and How to Re-make EU Sports Law' on 3 March 2022. Abstract: EU law's application to sport is ad hoc, ex post facto and driven by competition law (and occasionally free movement law). Something more systematic would be helpful - not least because governance in sport needs reform to prevent corruption, intransparency, unaccountable power etc. The latest example/flashpoint being the European SuperLeague. This talk aims to explore these issues further. More information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Centre for European Legal Studies website at: https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/mackenzie-stuart-lectures This entry provides an audio source for iTunes.

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0:00.0	Good evening everybody and welcome to the 2022 McKenzie Stewart Lecture. I'm Kenneth Armstrong.
0:12.0	I'm Professor of European Law at the Faculty of Law here in Cambridge. Now this also
0:19.3	has been actually the 25th annual McKenzie Stewart lecture,
0:23.8	but we had a bit of a hiatus last year. So it's extremely nice to be able to hold this year's
0:31.5	lecture and to be able to hold it in person. We're delighted and honored that the lecture will be given this evening
0:41.3	by Professor Stephen Wetherill,
0:44.3	Emeritus Jack DeLaw Professor of European Law
0:48.3	at the University of Oxford and the fellow of Somerville College.
0:54.5	Steve took the chair in 1998,
0:59.3	just as the McKenzie Stewart Lecture series
1:02.3	was being inaugurated.
1:06.2	The McKenzie Stewart Lecture was intended
1:08.8	to provide an annual focal point for reflection on the key European issues of the day.
1:19.8	And the lecture has been delivered by political and legal figures who in their own professional careers have made significant contributions to our understanding of European law and European integration.
1:35.0	And as an eminent scholar and author of numerous books and articles, Professor Wetherill is a fitting person to give this year's annual lecture.
1:49.5	This is, however, I think a somber moment for Europe, and the invasion of Ukraine and the Russian, but by Russian forces, has been both unimaginable and unconscionable.
2:09.0	And the loss of life in a war in Europe was the very thing that a process of European integration
2:17.1	was intended to avoid. So as we once again
2:22.4	enjoy the freedom to come together here as a community and to debate and discuss European law and European issues.
2:37.0	I think we do so in the knowledge that the freedom of others, indeed their very lives, are being taken away.
2:50.0	Now the subject of tonight's lecture is one that I know their very lives are being taken away.
2:51.6	Now the subject of tonight's lecture is one that I know
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