International sports transnational legal and regulatory order: quintessential regulatory capitalism

Sports transnational legal and regulatory order is an excellent example of regulatory capitalism on a global scale – a hybrid regulatory system of great sophistication: part private, part public; both national and international; and comprising innovative legal and regulatory mechanisms to bring order to what is a complex and contested regulatory space. Yet, to date, there have been comparatively few attempts to apply regulatory scholarship’s understandings of regulatory capitalism to the broader phenomenon of regulating international sports. This article remedies this gap, and in so doing enhances our understanding of the regulation of sport specifically, and of transnational legal and regulatory orders more broadly.