Optimization of Relations Regulation Methods in Professional Sports

The paper is devoted to the problem of approaches to the legal organization of professional activity of an athlete. In the field of professional sports, it is easy to find almost all known methods of legal influence: from prohibitions, obligations and restrictions to encouragement, stimulation, permission. But the method that has the greatest impact on relations with the participation of professional athletes is based on the fact that the personal will (decisions) of athletes determines this activity in basic legal facts and features. The legal regulation of professional activity of athletes develops primarily under the influence of dispositive norms, supplemented in appropriate cases by mandatory norms. To characterize the methods of regulating relations in sports, it is necessary to take into account a number of circumstances atypical for ordinary legal regulation (for example, a feature of the sphere under consideration is a layer of relatively soft methods of influence, i.e. explanations and recommendations). Among the special methods of regulating sports activities was and remains one or another way of combining acts of law-making, formed both in the field of state legal influence and in the field of corporate law-making. An intersectoral approach is essential in the development of regulatory impact on relations in professional sports, which allows taking into account the impact of various rules on certain relationships, which will potentially allow for a more reasonable distribution of rights and obligations, achieve the goals of legislative and other regulation, as well as effectively protect the subjects of rights. When constructing and organizing legal material containing complex (in-industry) regulation of relations in sports, it would be correct to use the techniques of private international law based on various conflict of laws bindings. The author concludes that it is necessary to continue work on optimizing the methods of regulating relations in professional sports.

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