(South China Normal University,Guangzhou 510631,China) Abstract: International sports law is the general designation of principles, rules, regulations and systems that adjust vari-ous international sports legal relations produced in international sports activities; it is different from global sports law that rose based on the development of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in terms of origin, establisher and effect etc. As compared with traditional departments of international law, international sports law has such characteristics as comprehen-sive, technical and autonomic, and shows its own development trends: constantly enriching and developing its own basic principles based on the fair competition principle and international cooperation principle; sport right and development right are basic human rights protected by international sports law; soft sports law has produced tremendous influence on the formation and development of international sports law; the booming of international sports organizations has become an important force to push international sports law development; the functions of permanent judicial institutions are signifi-cant, the judicial precedents of the CAS have become an important origin for international sports law development. Key words: sports law;international sports law;global sports law;international sports organization |