Regulation of Functioning of Professional Ice-Hockey Leagues

This dissertation is dedicated to the research of peculiarities of regulation of functioning of professional ice-hockey leagues of different countries in particular North America, Russia, Sweden, Check Republic and Finland, as well as validity of adoption of particular legal mechanism and systems, borrowed by Kontinental Hockey League from the National Hockey League. The first chapter provides the general description of professional ice-hockey leagues of different countries and comparison study of the history of their formation and development. The second chapter covers the legal status of the ice-hockey players, types of professional contracts and system of status stated by internal regulations of the leagues. Within the framework of the third chapter the different types of international transfers are specified, the legal sources regulated each type are defined and the legal problem arisen from the international transfers between NHL and KHL is identified as well as the ways of its solution. Currently KHL has faced a lot of questions concerning the strategy of its development as well as other legal and organizational matters. The way this question will be settled - either with the help of the foreign experience of NHL or taking into account the solutions of European colleagues or at its own discretion – remains to be seen and this fact guarantees the high level of subject relevance.