The development of men's handball was analyzed using data from the Olympic, World and European Championships held within the last eight years. The most obvious change, especially within these last nine tournaments, was that men's handball was played more dynamically and rapidly, both in attack and defense, especially by European teams. The first aim of this study was to conduct a technical anal...

By any standards, Europe is a lawyers’ paradise. Many figures illustrate the extent to which ‘Europe’ is juridified and could well be called upon here: the number of pages of European regulation in any given field, the percentage of national legislation originating in EU norms, the everincreasing caseload of the European Court of Justice (ECJ, or ‘the Court’), etc. Figures, however, fail to gra...