Sport is seen by the law as a special area whereby the law and legal systems does not directly interfere with the specific rules in relation to that particular sport for example the laws of the game the rules by which a particular sport is played is not an arena where laws or legal systems will interfere. Sport and the law law in action joshua rozenberg investigates how the law is increasingly impacting on sport with landmark cases being heard in the high court and european court of justice. However there are others mostly academics who see sports law as having developed into a new legal area in its own right the answer to the argument that sports law is merely law in which the parties happen to be involved in sport is that the law is now beginning to treat sporting activity sporting bodies and the resolution of disputes in sport differently from other activities or