Modern sport as a sphere of private law regulation

The article is devoted to the study of private social relations, which are formed in modern sports, and the peculiarities of their legal regulation. The author of the article argues that the main driver of the development of sport, as a unique social phenomenon, at the present stage is commercialization. Modern sport becomes a sign of a separate industry, the sector of the world market economy, respectively, and among the means of legal regulation of these relations should prevail in private law. In turn, sport law is an integrated part of civil (private) law. It was established that globalization, professionalization and total commercialization of the sphere of sport lead to a change in the quality of both the social relations themselves and the means of their legal regulation. Sport law should be considered as a system of private law, aimed at regulation, first of all, property relations, which are formed in connection with the implementation of sports activities

Sport, sports law, Lex Sportiva, private law, private law remedies, local law, selfregulation acts