Is boxing lawful? A legal and epidemiological discussion of the situation in Great Britain * Alexander Paul Roper * This title is an expansion of Brayne et al’s (1998). ‘Could boxing be banned? A legal and epidemiological perspective’. It is based overwhelmingly upon a long-lost but recently-found essay I did as part of my MA in Sport, Politics and Society at the Warwick Centre for the Study of Sport (the University of Warwick) (1997- 1998).