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On 16 September this year, the 9th Asser International Sports Law Lecture took place in The Hague. The theme was "Sports Betting Policy from a European Legal Perspective: Freedom of Services versus General Interest".

Presentations were given by Tjeerd Veenstra, director of the Dutch Lotto and chairman of the legal working group of the European Lotteries executive committee; Joris van Manen, Partner of De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek Law Firm, Amsterdam; Prof. John Wolohan, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York, and Genevieve Gordon, Birkbeck College, London University. The meeting was chaired by Alan Littler, Law Faculty, University of Tilburg. The Lecture was highly topical due to the fact that on 8 September 2009 the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Justice, in the case of Liga de Portuguesa de Futebol Profissional and Bwin International Ltd v Departamento de Jogos da Santa Casa da Misericordia de Lisboa gave an important preliminary ruling on sports betting in the context of Article 49 of the EC Treaty. The papers presented by John Wolohan and Genevieve Gordon can be found in this issue of ISLJ, next to country studies on sports betting from Italy, Spain and the Baltic States.

In the week of 5-9 October, Robert Siekmann and Roberto Branco Martins visited Indonesia for the purpose of association football-related lectures in the context of special courses for CEOs and managers of the professional football clubs of the League in Indonesia as well as lectures at the Pelita Harapan University in Djakarta. The visit constituted the first step in implementing the cooperation agreement between the Indonesia Lex Sportiva Institute (Director Hinca I.P. Pandjaitan) and the ASSER International Sports Law Centre, which was signed by the parties concerned in The Hague on 18 June 2009.

In September, in cooperation with Stefaan van den Bogaert, professor in European Law, Leiden University and visiting professor in European Sports Law at the Free...

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