Editorial

This issue is a partial outcome of the VEGA project “Sports market between the legal ideals and the economic reality”.

The 2021 special issue is dedicated to a so-far rather neglected topic in the journal, namely that of legal aspects of sports and sporting activities. This issue includes four papers that pay closer attention to four separate areas of sports law and sports policy. The paper by Tomáš Gábriš points to the fact that in Slovakia, in 2015, the Act on Sports introduced specific rules on sporting employment, which was to do away with those inflexibilities of the Labour Code that made the straightforward application of labour law onto sports impossible. Still, the sports sectors ignored the Act and continued with their practi