Institutionalised Exploitation of U.S. College Basketball and Football Players: A Case for Protection of Employees' Rights

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://ssrn.com/abstract=2516410" target="_blank" >http://ssrn.com/abstract=2516410</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2516410" target="_blank" >10.2139/ssrn.2516410</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Institutionalised Exploitation of U.S. College Basketball and Football Players: A Case for Protection of Employees' Rights

Original language description

This article deals with the institutionalised exploitation of U.S. college basketball and football players competing in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) top conferences. It is argued that the pretentious notion of maintaining "amateurism in college sports", through the prohibition of payments to the athletes and other restrictions on outside compensation, should no longer shroud the commercial nature of this enterprise. What has been created are professional leagues with well-paid and highly expert trainers and managers. This article considers such leagues under Czech and German labour law, with the objective of characterising and highlighting the unjust treatment of the participating athletes. The article is divided into five parts. The first part provides an introduction as well as clarification of the significance of labour and social rights in Europe. The second part describes the concept of a U.S. college athletic scholarship, summarises NCAA rules regarding a

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AG - Legal sciences

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Charles University in Prague Faculty of Law Research Paper

ISSN

2336-5811

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

1

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3 October 30, 2014

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

1-13

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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