Interview with David Jacotot
Professor of Private Law, University of Burgundy
Co-Director of the Master 2 “Sports Law Professions”
Dijon – France
When a club talks about the prejudice of not being able to “sell a player” while the player is only asking to be allowed to fulfill his contract to the end, we see the clash of two points of view: the (economic) logic of football transfers and the (legal) logic of labor law. Can market logic bend the labor law? This complex question deserves an answer, as unprepared players could face an unchallenged transfer market to the detriment of their rights and freedoms. David Jacotot, French Professor of Law, tries to answer these “deadlocked” situations from the point of view of French labor law.
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