The purpose of this work is to assess the current regulation of international trade in gambling services. Departing from different national definitions, “gambling”represents, in this study, all services which involve wagering a stake with monetary value in uncertain events driven (at least partially) by chance, including lotteries, casino and betting transactions.
International trade” of such services implies that the provider, the beneficiary or the service itself must cross a national border. Therefore, notwithstanding a brief evocation of selected national legal frameworks on five continents, this research has striven to focus on international regulations governing – principally or incidentally –provision of such services. In this context, Internet-provided gambling services were granted special attention.
To this purpose, this work has been constructed in an Introduction and two main parts.