Responsible sport and state oversight: sports organisations as civil society organisations and private regulators in France and Germany

The paper compares the legal frameworks of France and Germany as regards the dual nature of sports organisations and private regulators. The historical background, relevant constitutional and statutory law as well as current political and institutional arrangements are covered. Borrowing from a recent ISLJ paper by Rook, Prado and Heerdt, it uses the concept of 'responsible sport' to frame a discussion of oversight by the state, using France and Germany as two paradigmatically relevant case studies, although not as a discussion of corporate social responsibility but rather as one of accountability in the state-sport relationship.

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This paper compares the legal frameworks of France and Germany in terms of the dual nature of sports organizations and private regulators. It uses the concept of 'responsible sport' to discuss the role and accountability of the state in sports oversight.