Nastavnyy I. Civil legal regulation of the relations in the field of professional sport

The dissertation is a complex scientific research of issues of civil legal regulation of relations in the field of professional sport, reflected in determining the legal nature of professional sport relations, their place in the system of civil law, the peculiarities of their contractual regulation, the legal status of their participants, the resolution of disputes between the subjects of professional sport etc. Doctrinal approaches to the definition of the concept and characteristic features of legal relations in the sphere of professional sport are revealed. It has been established that modern professional sport is characterized by such features as: 1) it is one of the varieties of sport activities; 2) it is a commercial activity; 3) the direction to organizing and conducting sport-entertaining activities and meeting the informational and entertaining needs of the population; 4) it is a kind of private legalrelations (civil, labor, medical, etc.); 5) a special subject composition (athletesprofessionals, trainers, sport organizations, federations etc.); 6) high level of organized sport and entertaining activities, provided by professional athlete skills and competition between individual athletes and teams.