Date |
Title |
2024-11-19 |
Zoom-In Webinar - The Aftermath of the Diarra Judgement: Towards a New FIFA Transfer System? - 20 November - 16:00-18:00 CET |
2024-10-17 |
Free Webinar - The impact of the Diarra case on the football transfer system - 18 October 2024 - 15:00 CET |
2024-09-26 |
Luxembourg calls…is the answer from Nyon the way forward? Assessing UEFA’s response to the ECJ’s ISU judgment - By Saverio Spera |
2024-09-19 |
Women’s Football and the Fundamental Right to Occupational Health and Safety: FIFA’s Responsibility to Regulate Female Specific Health Issues - By Ella Limbach |
2024-09-19 |
The International Cricket Council and its human rights responsibilities to the Afghanistan women's cricket team - By Rishi Gulati |
2024-07-12 |
[Call for Papers] - International Sports Law Journal - Annual Conference - Asser Institute, The Hague - 24-25 October 2024 - Reminder! |
2024-06-14 |
[Call for papers] - International Sports Law Journal - Annual Conference - Asser Institute, The Hague - 24-25 October 2024 |
2024-05-07 |
[Online Summer Programme] - International sports and human rights - 22 - 29 May 2024 - Last spots! |
2024-04-02 |
[Call for Papers] Through Challenges and Disruptions: Evolution of the Lex Olympica - 20 September 2024 - Inland School of Business and Social Sciences |
2024-03-01 |
[New Publication] - The European Roots of the Lex Sportiva: How Europe Rules Global Sport - Antoine Duval , Alexander Krüger and Johan Lindholm (eds) - Open Access |
2024-02-12 |
[Advanced professional training] Responding to human rights abuse in sport: Safe, effective & appropriate investigation - 5-6 March |
2024-01-31 |
Sport is sailing rudderless into geopolitical storms - Russia and Israel responses show how absence of rules makes FIFA and the IOC tools of the global north - By Nick McGeehan |
2023-10-17 |
[Conference] International Sports Law Journal Annual Conference - Asser Institute - 26-27 October |
2023-10-11 |
[Advanced Professional Training] EU competition law and transnational sports governance - 24-25 October 2023 |
2023-10-10 |
[Online Event] The ECtHR's Semenya ruling: A human rights game-changer for the transnational governance of sport? - 13 October 2023 |
2023-03-24 |
The State of Football Governance - Advocate General Szpunar Paves the Way for a Critical Assessment of the Status Quo - By Robby Houben (University of Antwerp) & Siniša Petrović (University of Zagreb) |
2022-12-09 |
New Event! Governing European football: What role for the European Union? - 16 December - Brussels |
2022-12-09 |
Call for Papers - How football changed Qatar (or not): Transnational legal struggles in the shadow of the FIFA World Cup 2022 - Deadline 6 January 2023 |
2022-11-25 |
Time to focus on freedom of expression: Rainbows, armbands, and FIFA’s commitment to human rights - By Prof. Mark James (Manchester Metropolitan University) |
2022-10-04 |
New Event - Zoom In - Sports Governing Bodies and the Russian invasion of Ukraine - The end of neutrality? - 12 October - 16.00-17.30 CET |
2022-09-30 |
ISLJ Conference 2022 - Transnational sports law and governance in turbulent times - Early Bird Registration Ends Tomorrow! |
2022-09-30 |
A personal reflection on the Summer Programme on Sports Governance and Human Rights - By Pedro José Mercado Jaén |
2022-09-06 |
Can Formula 1 drive to protect human rights? A case study of the Bahrain GP - By Pedro José Mercado Jaén |
2022-06-03 |
Call for papers - ISLJ Conference on International Sports Law - Asser Institute - 25 and 26 October 2022 |
2022-04-01 |
Reactions of International Sport Organisations to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: An Overview - By Daniela Heerdt & Guido Battaglia |
2021-11-11 |
12th round of Caster Semenya’s legal fight: too close to call? - By Jeremy Abel |
2021-10-11 |
New Event! Diversity at the Court of Arbitration for Sport: Time for a Changing of the Guard? - Zoom In Webinar - 14 October - 4pm |
2021-10-11 |
Investment in Football as a Means to a Particular End – Part 2: The Multiple Layers of Multi-Club Ownership Regulation in Football - By Rhys Lenarduzzi |
2021-07-12 |
New Event! Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter and the Right to Free Speech of Athletes - Zoom In Webinar - 14 July - 16:00 (CET) |
2021-07-06 |
Investment in Football as a Means to a Particular End – Part 1: A non-exhaustive Typology - By Rhys Lenarduzzi |
2021-06-29 |
WISLaw Blog Symposium - Rule 40 of the Olympic Charter: the wind of changes or a new commercial race - By Rusa Agafonova |
2021-06-29 |
WISLaw Blog Symposium - Stick to Sports: The Impact of Rule 50 on American Athletes at the Olympic Games - By Lindsay Brandon |
2021-06-29 |
WISLaw Blog Symposium - Why the existing athletes' Olympic entering system does not comply with the fundamental principles of Olympism enshrined in the Olympic Charter - By Anna Antseliovich |
2021-06-29 |
WISLaw Blog Symposium - Legal and other issues in Japan arising from the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games due to COVID-19 - By Yuri Yagi |
2021-06-29 |
WISLaw Blog Symposium - Freedom of Expression in Article 10 of the ECHR and Rule 50 of the IOC Charter: Are these polar opposites? - By Nuray Ekşi |
2021-06-28 |
WISLaw Blog Symposium - 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games - Introduction |
2021-05-25 |
New Event! The Court of Arbitration for Sport at the European Court of Human Rights - Prof. Helen Keller - 26 May - 16:00 |
2021-04-23 |
Never let a good fiasco go to waste: why and how the governance of European football should be reformed after the demise of the ‘SuperLeague’ - By Stephen Weatherill |
2021-03-29 |
(A)Political Games? Ubiquitous Nationalism and the IOC’s Hypocrisy |
2021-03-22 |
“Sport Sex” before the European Court of Human Rights - Caster Semenya v. Switzerland - By Michele Krech |
2021-03-01 |
A Reflection on Recent Human Rights Efforts of National Football Associations - By Daniela Heerdt (Tilburg University) |
2021-02-08 |
Revisiting FIFA’s Training Compensation and Solidarity Mechanism - Part. 5: Rethinking Redistribution in Football - By Rhys Lenarduzzi |
2021-01-28 |
Revisiting FIFA’s Training Compensation and Solidarity Mechanism - Part. 4: The New FIFA Clearing House – An improvement to FIFA’s training compensation and solidarity mechanisms? - By Rhys Lenarduzzi |
2021-01-14 |
New Event! Zoom In on International Skating Union v. European Commission - 20 January - 16.00-17.30 (CET) |
2020-12-10 |
Revisiting FIFA’s Training Compensation and Solidarity Mechanism - Part. 3: The Curious Non-Application of Training Compensation to Women’s Football – By Rhys Lenarduzzi |
2020-11-30 |
New Event! Zoom In on Transnational Sports Law - Blake Leeper v. IAAF - 4 December at 4pm (CET) |
2020-11-20 |
Pistorius revisited: A comment on the CAS award in Blake Leeper v. IAAF - By Marjolaine Viret |
2020-11-17 |
Revisiting FIFA’s Training Compensation and Solidarity Mechanism - Part. 2: The African Reality – By Rhys Lenarduzzi |
2020-11-13 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – October 2020 - By Rhys Lenarduzzi |
2020-11-06 |
Revisiting FIFA’s Training Compensation and Solidarity Mechanism - Part.1: The historical, legal and political foundations - By Rhys Lenarduzzi |
2020-10-13 |
The Specificity of Sport - Comparing the Case-Law of the European Court of Justice and of the Court of Arbitration for Sport - Part 1 - By Stefano Bastianon |
2020-09-21 |
SFT rejects Semenya appeal: nothing changes - By Andy Brown |
2020-09-17 |
The Semenya Decision of the Swiss Federal Tribunal: Human Rights on the Bench - By Faraz Shahlaei |
2020-09-15 |
The SFT’s Semenya Decision under European human rights standards: Conflicting considerations and why a recourse could be successful at Strasbourg - By Kevin Gerenni |
2020-09-11 |
Selected procedural issues –and questions– arising out the Caster Semenya Judgment of the Swiss Federal Tribunal - By Despina Mavromati |
2020-09-10 |
Caster Semenya Case Exposes Design Flaws in International Sports Governance - By Roger Pielke Jr. |
2020-09-10 |
Caster Semenya at the SFT – in 10 points - By Jack Anderson |
2020-09-09 |
Chronicle of a Defeat Foretold: Dissecting the Swiss Federal Tribunal’s Semenya Decision - By Marjolaine Viret |
2020-09-08 |
New Transnational Sports Law Articles Released on SSRN - Antoine Duval |
2020-09-04 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – June - August 2020 by Thomas Terraz |
2020-06-10 |
Anti-Doping in Times of COVID-19: A Difficult Balancing Exercise for WADA - By Marjolaine Viret |
2020-05-26 |
(A)Political Games: A Critical History of Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter - By Thomas Terraz |
2020-02-23 |
How 2019 Will Shape the International Sports Law of the 2020s - By Thomas Terraz |
2020-02-23 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – January 2020 - By Thomas Terraz |
2020-01-22 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – November and December 2019- By Thomas Terraz |
2020-01-22 |
Balancing Athletes’ Interests and The Olympic Partner Programme: the Bundeskartellamt’s Rule 40 Decision - By Thomas Terraz |
2019-12-02 |
Is UCI the new ISU? Analysing Velon’s Competition Law Complaint to the European Commission - By Thomas Terraz |
2019-12-02 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – October 2019 by Thomas Terraz |
2019-11-10 |
ISLJ International Sports Law Conference 2019 - Conference Report - By Thomas Terraz |
2019-11-10 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – August and September 2019 - By Thomas Terraz |
2019-09-19 |
Caster Semenya’s Legal Battle Against Gender Stereotypes: On Nature, Law and Identity - By Sofia Balzaretti (University of Fribourg) |
2019-08-08 |
Book Review - Football and the Law, Edited by Nick De Marco - By Despina Mavromati (SportLegis/University of Lausanne) |
2019-08-08 |
Can a closed league in e-Sports survive EU competition law scrutiny? The case of LEC - By Thomas Terraz |
2019-08-08 |
I’m A Loser Baby, So Let’s Kill Transparency – Recent Changes to the Olympic Games Host City Selection Process - By Ryan Gauthier (Thompson Rivers University) |
2019-06-29 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – April and May 2019. By Tomáš Grell |
2019-05-20 |
League of Legends European Championships - Challenging the Boundaries of Sport in EU Law - By Thomas Terraz |
2019-05-17 |
Will the World Cup 2022 Expansion Mark the Beginning of the End of FIFA’s Human Rights Journey? - By Daniela Heerdt |
2019-05-07 |
How Data Protection Crystallises Key Legal Challenges in Anti-Doping - By Marjolaine Viret |
2019-04-30 |
What happens in Switzerland stays in Switzerland: The Striani Judgment of the Brussels Court of Appeals |
2019-04-23 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – February and March 2019. By Tomáš Grell |
2019-04-05 |
New Event! FIFA and Human Rights: Impacts, Policies, Responsibilities - 8 May 2019 - Asser Institute |
2019-02-19 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – January 2019 - By Tomáš Grell |
2019-02-13 |
Call for papers - Third Annual International Sports Law Conference of the International Sports Law Journal - 24 and 25 October 2019 - Asser Institute |
2018-12-19 |
A Reflection on the Second Report of FIFA’s Human Rights Advisory Board - By Daniela Heerdt (Tilburg University) |
2018-12-18 |
Call for Papers - FIFA and Human Rights: Impacts, Policies, Responsibilities - 8 May 2019 - Asser Institute |
2018-12-11 |
The Kristoffersen ruling: the EFTA Court targets athlete endorsement deals - By Sven Demeulemeester and Niels Verborgh |
2018-11-11 |
Season 2 of football leaks: A review of the first episodes |
2018-10-24 |
Supporters of the ISLJ Annual International Sports Law Conference 2018: Altius |
2018-10-22 |
Supporters of the ISLJ Annual International Sports Law Conference 2018: Women in Sports Law |
2018-10-14 |
The proportionality test under Art. 101 (1) TFEU and the legitimacy of UEFA Financial fair-play regulations: From the Meca Medina and Majcen ruling of the European Court of Justice to the Galatasaray and AC Milan awards of the Court of Arbitration for Sport – By Stefano Bastianon |
2018-10-10 |
The “Victory” of the Court of Arbitration for Sport at the European Court of Human Rights: The End of the Beginning for the CAS |
2018-10-08 |
ISLJ International Sports Law Conference 2018 - Asser Institute - 25-26 October - Register Now! |
2018-09-24 |
Football Intermediaries: Would a European centralized licensing system be a sustainable solution? - By Panagiotis Roumeliotis |
2018-09-10 |
Seraing vs. FIFA: Why the rumours of CAS’s death have been greatly exaggerated |
2018-07-17 |
New Position - Internship in International Sports Law - Deadline 15 August |
2018-06-27 |
Human Rights Protection and the FIFA World Cup: A Never-Ending Match? - By Daniela Heerdt |
2018-03-21 |
Call for papers: Annual International Sports Law Conference of the International Sports Law Journal - 25 & 26 October - Asser Institute, The Hague |
2018-03-08 |
Stepping Outside the New York Convention - Practical Lessons on the Indirect Enforcement of CAS-Awards in Football Matters - By Etienne Gard |
2018-02-28 |
The International Partnership against Corruption in Sport (IPACS) and the quest for good governance: Of brave men and rotting fish - By Thomas Kruessmann |
2018-02-21 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – January 2018 - By Tomáš Grell |
2018-02-09 |
Towards a Suitable Policy Framework for Cricket Betting in India - By Deeksha Malik |
2018-01-31 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – December 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2018-01-05 |
The ISU Commission's Decision and the Slippery Side of Eligibility Rules - By Stefano Bastianon (University of Bergamo) |
2018-01-04 |
Human Rights as Selection Criteria in Bidding Regulations for Mega-Sporting Events – Part II: FIFA and Comparative Overview – By Tomáš Grell |
2017-12-20 |
Human Rights as Selection Criteria in Bidding Regulations for Mega-Sporting Events – Part I: IOC and UEFA – By Tomáš Grell |
2017-12-18 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – November 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2017-12-08 |
Statement on the European Commission's ISU Decision by Ben Van Rompuy and Antoine Duval |
2017-12-05 |
A Good Governance Approach to Stadium Subsidies in North America - By Ryan Gauthier |
2017-11-27 |
Illegally obtained evidence in match-fixing cases: The Turkish perspective - By Oytun Azkanar |
2017-11-20 |
Report from the first ISLJ Annual International Sports Law Conference - 26-27 October at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut |
2017-11-07 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – October 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2017-10-25 |
Multi-Club Ownership in European Football – Part II: The Concept of Decisive Influence in the Red Bull Case – By Tomáš Grell |
2017-10-24 |
Multi-Club Ownership in European Football – Part I: General Introduction and the ENIC Saga – By Tom��š Grell |
2017-10-19 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – September 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2017-10-11 |
The limits to multiple representation by football intermediaries under FIFA rules and Swiss Law - By Josep F. Vandellos Alamilla |
2017-10-04 |
The Evolution of UEFA’s Financial Fair Play Rules – Part 3: Past reforms and uncertain future. By Christopher Flanagan |
2017-09-27 |
The Evolution of UEFA’s Financial Fair Play Rules – Part 2: The Legal Challenges. By Christopher Flanagan |
2017-09-21 |
The Evolution of UEFA’s Financial Fair Play Rules – Part 1: Background and EU Law. By Christopher Flanagan |
2017-09-15 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – July and August 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2017-09-04 |
FIFA's Human Rights Agenda: Is the Game Beautiful Again? – By Tomáš Grell |
2017-08-01 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – June 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2017-07-20 |
Mitigating Circumstances and Strict Liability of Clubs in Match-fixing: Are We Going in the Wrong Direction? An Analysis of the Novara and Pro Patria Cases - By Mario Vigna |
2017-07-07 |
Overdue payables in action: Reviewing two years of FIFA jurisprudence on the 12bis procedure – Part 2. By Frans M. de Weger and Frank John Vrolijk. |
2017-07-05 |
Overdue payables in action: Reviewing two years of FIFA jurisprudence on the 12bis procedure – Part 1. By Frans M. de Weger and Frank John Vrolijk. |
2017-06-26 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – May 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2017-06-13 |
The Olympic Games and Human Rights – Part II: Human Rights Obligations Added to the Host City Contract: Turning Point or Empty Promise? – By Tomáš Grell |
2017-06-09 |
The Olympic Games and Human Rights – Part I: Introduction to the Host City Contract – By Tomáš Grell |
2017-05-31 |
Exploring the Validity of Unilateral Extension Options in Football – Part 2: The view of the DRC and the CAS. By Saverio Spera |
2017-05-24 |
Nudging, not crushing, private orders - Private Ordering in Sports and the Role of States - By Branislav Hock |
2017-05-17 |
What Pogba's transfer tells us about the (de)regulation of intermediaries in football. By Serhat Yilmaz & Antoine Duval |
2017-05-16 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – April 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2017-05-10 |
The Reform of FIFA: Plus ça change, moins ça change? |
2017-04-26 |
RFC Seraing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport: How FIFA’s TPO ban Survived (Again) EU Law Scrutiny |
2017-04-19 |
The Validity of Unilateral Extension Options in Football – Part 1: A European Legal Mess. By Saverio Spera |
2017-04-09 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – March 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2017-04-03 |
The legality of surety undertakings in relation to minor football players: the Lokilo case. By Adriaan Wijckmans |
2017-03-17 |
Kosovo at the Court of Arbitration for Sport – Constructing Statehood Through Sport? By Ryan Gauthier (Thompson Rivers University) |
2017-03-13 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – February 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2017-03-06 |
FIFA's Responsibility for Human Rights Abuses in Qatar – Part II: The Zurich Court's Ruling - By Tomáš Grell |
2017-02-28 |
FIFA's Responsibility for Human Rights Abuses in Qatar - Part I: The Claims Against FIFA - By Tomáš Grell |
2017-02-22 |
Opening - Managing Editor of the International Sports Law Journal - Apply by 17 March |
2017-02-20 |
Doyen vs. Sporting II: The Bitter End of Sporting’s Fight at the Swiss Federal Supreme Court. By Shervine Nafissi |
2017-02-17 |
Doyen vs. Sporting I: Doyen’s Pyrrhic Victory at the CAS |
2017-02-10 |
UEFA’s Financial Fair Play Regulations and the Rise of Football’s 1% |
2017-02-08 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – January 2017. By Saverio Spera. |
2017-02-06 |
Introducing the new legal challenges of E-Sports. By N. Emre Bilginoglu |
2017-01-31 |
Time for Transparency at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. By Saverio Spera |
2017-01-25 |
UEFA’s betting fraud detection system: How does the CAS regard this monitoring tool? By Emilio García. |
2017-01-20 |
The Diarra Ruling of the Tribunal of Charleroi: The New Pechstein, Bosman or Mutu? |
2017-01-18 |
The Russian Doping Scandal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport: The IPC’s Rio Ineligibility of Russian Paralympic Athletes |
2017-01-11 |
The Russian Doping Scandal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport: The IAAF’s Rio Ineligibility of Russian Athletes |
2017-01-06 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – November and December 2016. By Saverio Spera. |
2017-01-03 |
FIFA’s provision on the protection of minors - Part 3: The compatibility of Article 19 with EU law. By Kester Mekenkamp. |
2016-12-14 |
FIFA’s provision on the protection of minors - Part 2: The 2009 reform and its aftermath. By Kester Mekenkamp. |
2016-12-12 |
FIFA’s provision on the protection of minors - Part 1: The Early Years. By Kester Mekenkamp. |
2016-12-07 |
The entitlement to Training Compensation of “previous” clubs under EU Competition Law. By Josep F. Vandellos Alamilla |
2016-12-01 |
The EU State aid and sport saga: The Real Madrid Decision (part 2) |
2016-11-22 |
Resolution of Disputes Arising From Football Contracts in Turkey. By N. Emre Bilginoglu |
2016-11-19 |
The World Anti-Doping System at a Crossroads |
2016-11-15 |
The EU State aid and sport saga: The Real Madrid Decision (part 1) |
2016-11-11 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – October 2016. By Kester Mekenkamp. |
2016-10-26 |
Taking the Blue Pill or the Red Pill: Should Athletes Really Check their Medications against the Prohibited List Personally? - A Comment by Marjolaine Viret (University of Neuchâtel ) |
2016-10-13 |
Case note: State aid Decision on the preferential corporate tax treatment of Real Madrid, Athletic Bilbao, Osasuna and FC Barcelona |
2016-10-10 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – September 2016. By Kester Mekenkamp |
2016-10-06 |
De- or Re-regulating the middlemen? The DFB’s regulation of intermediaries under EU law scrutiny at the OLG Frankfurt. By Antoine Duval and Kester Mekenkamp. |
2016-09-29 |
Case note: TAS 2016/A/4474 Michel Platini c. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. By Marine Montejo |
2016-09-20 |
The Russian Ballet at the CAS Ad Hoc Division in Rio - Act V: Saving the last (Russian) woman standing: The Klishina miracle |
2016-09-15 |
The Russian Ballet at the CAS Ad Hoc Division in Rio - Act IV: On Bringing a sport into disrepute |
2016-09-14 |
The Russian Ballet at the CAS Ad Hoc Division in Rio - Act III: On being sufficiently tested |
2016-09-13 |
The Russian Ballet at the CAS Ad Hoc Division in Rio - Act II: On being implicated |
2016-09-12 |
The Russian Ballet at the CAS Ad Hoc Division in Rio - Act I: Saved by the Osaka Déjà-Vu |
2016-09-09 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – August 2016. By Kester Mekenkamp. |
2016-09-07 |
Sports arbitration and EU Competition law: the Belgian competition authority enters the arena. By Marine Montejo |
2016-08-31 |
From Lord of the Rings to Lord of the Drinks – A legal take on the downfall of Yuri van Gelder at the Rio Olympics. By Guido Hahn (Erasmus University Rotterdam) |
2016-08-29 |
Bailing out your local football club: The Willem II and MVV State Aid decisions as blueprint for future rescue aid (Part 2) |
2016-08-24 |
Bailing out your local football club: The Willem II and MVV State Aid decisions as blueprint for future rescue aid (Part 1) |
2016-08-21 |
Fear and Loathing in Rio de Janeiro – Displacement and the Olympics by Ryan Gauthier (Thompson Rivers University) |
2016-08-19 |
Why we should stop focusing on Caster Semenya by Marjolaine Viret (University of Neuchâtel) |
2016-08-15 |
Sporting nationality and the Olympic Games: selected issues by Yann Hafner (University of Neuchâtel) |
2016-08-11 |
Regulating the human body in sports: Lessons learned from the Dutee Chand case - by Dr Marjolaine Viret & Emily Wisnosky |
2016-08-03 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – July 2016 - By Marine Montejo |
2016-07-25 |
Brexit and EU law: Beyond the Premier League (Part 2). By Marine Montejo |
2016-07-22 |
With or without them? Russia’s state doping system and the Olympic fate of Russian athletes. By Antoine Duval, Kester Mekenkamp and Oskar van Maren |
2016-07-21 |
Brexit and EU law: Beyond the Premier League (Part 1). By Marine Montejo |
2016-07-12 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – June 2016. By Kester Mekenkamp |
2016-07-06 |
The EU State aid and sport saga: The Showdown |
2016-06-21 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – May 2016. By Marine Montejo |
2016-06-20 |
Operación Puerto Strikes Back! |
2016-06-15 |
FIBA/Euroleague: Basketball’s EU Competition Law Champions League- first leg in the Landgericht München. By Marine Montejo |
2016-06-13 |
The Müller case: Revisiting the compatibility of fixed term contracts in football with EU Law. By Kester Mekenkamp |
2016-06-08 |
The BGH’s Pechstein Decision: A Surrealist Ruling |
2016-06-06 |
The EU State aid and Sport Saga: Hungary revisited? (Part 2) |
2016-05-19 |
The Rise and Fall of FC Twente |
2016-05-18 |
The EU State aid and Sport Saga: Hungary’s tax benefit scheme revisited? (Part 1) |
2016-05-04 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – April 2016. By Marine Montejo |
2016-04-29 |
The boundaries of the “premium sports rights” category and its competition law implications. By Marine Montejo |
2016-04-26 |
Guest Blog - Mixed Martial Arts (MMA): Legal Issues by Laura Donnellan |
2016-04-23 |
Guest Blog - The Role of Sport in the Recognition of Transgender and Intersex Rights by Conor Talbot |
2016-04-20 |
Unpacking Doyen’s TPO Deals: The Final Whistle |
2016-04-12 |
Unpacking Doyen’s TPO Deals: TPO and Spanish football, friends with(out) benefits? |
2016-04-08 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – March 2016. By Marine Montejo |
2016-04-05 |
Doyen’s Crusade Against FIFA’s TPO Ban: The Ruling of the Appeal Court of Brussels |
2016-03-30 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – February 2016 |
2016-03-24 |
Book Review: Despina Mavromati & Matthieu Reeb, The Code of the Court of Arbitration for Sport—Commentary, Cases, and Materials (Wolters Kluwer International 2015). By Professor Matthew Mitten |
2016-02-05 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – January 2016 |
2016-01-20 |
International Sports Law in 2015: Our Reader |
2016-01-08 |
Goodbye 2015! The Highlights of our International Sports Law Year |
2015-12-18 |
Unpacking Doyen’s TPO Deals: In defence of the compatibility of FIFA’s TPO ban with EU law |
2015-12-09 |
Unpacking Doyen’s TPO Deals – Sporting Lisbon’s rebellion in the Rojo case. By Antoine Duval and Oskar van Maren |
2015-12-02 |
Unpacking Doyen’s TPO Deals: FC Twente's Game of Maltese Roulette. By Antoine Duval and Oskar van Maren |
2015-11-27 |
Unpacking Doyen’s TPO deals - Introduction |
2015-11-20 |
Book Review: Questioning the (in)dependence of the Court of Arbitration for Sport |
2015-11-17 |
The Court of Arbitration for Sport after Pechstein: Reform or Revolution? |
2015-11-13 |
Sports governance 20 years after Bosman: Back to the future… or not? By Borja García |
2015-11-10 |
The 2006 World Cup Tax Evasion Affair in Germany: A short guide. By Gesa Kuebek |
2015-10-30 |
Blog Symposium: Ensuring proportionate sanctions under the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code. By Mike Morgan |
2015-10-29 |
Blog Symposium: Proof of intent (or lack thereof) under the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code. By Howard L. Jacobs |
2015-10-28 |
Blog Symposium: The “Athlete Patient” and the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code: Competing Under Medical Treatment. By Marjolaine Viret and Emily Wisnosky |
2015-10-27 |
Blog Symposium: The impact of the revised World Anti-Doping Code on the work of National Anti-Doping Agencies. By Herman Ram |
2015-10-26 |
Blog Symposium: The new WADA Code 2015 - Introduction |
2015-10-23 |
To pay or not to pay? That is the question. The case of O’Bannon v. NCAA and the struggle of student athletes in the US. By Zlatka Koleva |
2015-10-05 |
The European Commission’s ISU antitrust investigation explained. By Ben Van Rompuy |
2015-09-29 |
Interview with Wil van Megen (Legal Director of FIFPro) on FIFPro’s EU Competition Law complaint against the FIFA Transfer System |
2015-09-29 |
The Scala reform proposals for FIFA: Old wine in new bottles? |
2015-09-11 |
Why the CAS #LetDuteeRun: the Proportionality of the Regulation of Hyperandrogenism in Athletics by Piotr Drabik |
2015-09-04 |
Not comfortably satisfied? The upcoming Court of Arbitration for Sport case of the thirty-four current and former players of the Essendon football club. By James Kitching |
2015-08-25 |
EU Law is not enough: Why FIFA's TPO ban survived its first challenge before the Brussels Court |
2015-08-12 |
The New FIFA Intermediaries Regulations under EU Law Fire in Germany. By Tine Misic |
2015-07-23 |
Compatibility of fixed-term contracts in football with Directive 1999/70/EC. Part 2: The Heinz Müller case. By Piotr Drabik |
2015-07-20 |
Compatibility of Fixed-Term Contracts in Football with Directive 1999/70/EC. Part.1: The General Framework. By Piotr Drabik |
2015-07-14 |
UEFA’s FFP out in the open: The Dynamo Moscow Case |
2015-07-10 |
Policing the (in)dependence of National Federations through the prism of the FIFA Statutes. By Tine Misic |
2015-07-06 |
The Brussels Court judgment on Financial Fair Play: a futile attempt to pull off a Bosman. By Ben Van Rompuy |
2015-06-30 |
A Bridge Too Far? Bridge Transfers at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. By Antoine Duval and Luis Torres. |
2015-06-23 |
20 Years After Bosman - The New Frontiers of EU Law and Sport - Special Issue of the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law |
2015-06-10 |
ASSER Exclusive! Interview with Charles “Chuck” Blazer by Piotr Drabik |
2015-06-08 |
Financial Fair Play: Lessons from the 2014 and 2015 settlement practice of UEFA. By Luis Torres |
2015-06-02 |
Book Review: Reforming FIFA, or Not |
2015-05-27 |
The Spanish TV Rights Distribution System after the Royal Decree: An Introduction. By Luis Torres |
2015-05-13 |
Is FIFA fixing the prices of intermediaries? An EU competition law analysis - By Georgi Antonov (ASSER Institute) |
2015-05-11 |
The Impact of the new FIFA Regulations for Intermediaries: A comparative analysis of Brazil, Spain and England. By Luis Torres |
2015-04-30 |
Blog Symposium: Why FIFA's TPO ban is justified. By Prof. Dr. Christian Duve |
2015-04-17 |
Blog Symposium: Third Party Investment from a UK Perspective. By Daniel Geey |
2015-04-16 |
Blog Symposium: The Impact of the TPO Ban on South American Football. By Ariel N. Reck |
2015-04-15 |
Blog Symposium: Third-party entitlement to shares of transfer fees: problems and solutions - By Dr. Raffaele Poli (Head of CIES Football Observatory) |
2015-04-14 |
Blog Symposium: FIFA must regulate TPO, not ban it. The point of view of La Liga. |
2015-04-10 |
Blog Symposium: FIFA’s TPO ban and its compatibility with EU competition law - Introduction - Antoine Duval & Oskar van Maren |
2015-03-27 |
The CAS and Mutu - Episode 4 - Interpreting the FIFA Transfer Regulations with a little help from EU Law |
2015-03-23 |
The UCI Report: The new dawn of professional cycling? |
2015-03-03 |
The aftermath of the Pechstein ruling: Can the Swiss Federal Tribunal save CAS arbitration? By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2015-02-27 |
‘The reform of football': Yes, but how? By Marco van der Harst |
2015-02-24 |
SV Wilhelmshaven: a Rebel with a cause! Challenging the compatibility of FIFA’s training compensation system with EU law |
2015-02-20 |
In Egypt, Broadcasting Football is a Question of Sovereignty … for Now! By Tarek Badawy, Inji Fathalla, and Nadim Magdy |
2015-02-17 |
Why the European Commission will not star in the Spanish TV rights Telenovela. By Ben Van Rompuy and Oskar van Maren |
2015-02-09 |
The 2014 Dortmund judgment: what potential for a follow-on class action? By Zygimantas Juska |
2015-02-06 |
The Pechstein ruling of the OLG München - A Rough Translation |
2015-02-03 |
From Veerpalu to Lalluka: ‘one step forward, two steps back’ for CAS in dealing with Human Growth Hormone tests (by Thalia Diathesopoulou) |
2015-01-29 |
State Aid and Sport: does anyone really care about rugby? By Beverley Williamson |
2015-01-26 |
State aid in Croatia and the Dinamo Zagreb case |
2015-01-19 |
The Pechstein ruling of the Oberlandesgericht München - Time for a new reform of CAS? |
2015-01-16 |
In blood we trust? The Kreuziger Biological Passport Case. By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2015-01-05 |
A Question of (dis)Proportion: The CAS Award in the Luis Suarez Biting Saga |
2014-12-18 |
Time to Cure FIFA’s Chronic Bad Governance Disease |
2014-12-12 |
The CAS Ad Hoc Division in 2014: Business As Usual? - Part. 2: The Selection Drama |
2014-12-08 |
Should the CAS ‘let Dutee run’? Gender policies in Sport under legal scrutiny. By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2014-12-01 |
The O’Bannon Case: The end of the US college sport’s amateurism model? By Zygimantas Juska |
2014-11-26 |
Image Rights in Professional Basketball (Part II): Lessons from the American College Athletes cases. By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2014-11-20 |
The Olympic Agenda 2020: The devil is in the implementation! |
2014-11-18 |
UEFA’s tax-free Euro 2016 in France: State aid or no State aid? |
2014-11-17 |
The New Olympic Host City Contract: Human Rights à la carte? by Ryan Gauthier, PhD Researcher (Erasmus University Rotterdam) |
2014-11-11 |
The UN and the IOC: Beautiful friendship or Liaison Dangereuse? |
2014-11-07 |
Image Rights in Professional Basketball (Part I): The ‘in-n-out rimshot’ of the Basketball Arbitral Tribunal to enforce players’ image rights contracts. By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2014-11-03 |
Sport and EU Competition Law: uncharted territories - (II) Mandatory player release systems with no compensation for clubs. By Ben Van Rompuy |
2014-10-22 |
Sports Politics before the CAS II: Where does the freedom of speech of a Karate Official ends? By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2014-10-15 |
The new “Arrangement” between the European Commission and UEFA: A political capitulation of the EU |
2014-10-15 |
Sports Politics before the CAS: Early signs of a ‘constitutional’ role for CAS? By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2014-10-06 |
Olympic Agenda 2020: To bid, or not to bid, that is the question! |
2014-10-03 |
The CAS jurisprudence on match-fixing in football: What can we learn from the Turkish cases? - Part 2: The procedural aspects. By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2014-09-29 |
The EU State aid and Sport Saga – A blockade to Florentino Perez’ latest “galactic” ambitions (part 2) |
2014-09-23 |
The CAS jurisprudence on match-fixing in football: What can we learn from the Turkish cases? - Part 1 - By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2014-09-12 |
Sport and EU Competition Law: uncharted territories - (I) The Swedish Bodybuilding case. By Ben Van Rompuy |
2014-09-10 |
The Legia Warszawa case: The ‘Draconian’ effect of the forfeiture sanction in the light of the proportionality principle. By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2014-09-05 |
The EU State aid and Sport Saga – A blockade to Florentino Perez’ latest “galactic” ambitions (part 1) |
2014-09-02 |
UEFA Financial Fair Play Regulations Put PSG and Manchester City on a Transfer Diet |
2014-07-29 |
Right to Privacy 1:0 Whereabouts Requirement - A Case Note on a Recent Decision by the Spanish Audiencia Nacional |
2014-07-24 |
The Rules of the Electoral Game for the FIFA 2015 Presidential Elections |
2014-07-22 |
Can (national or EU) public policy stop CAS awards? By Marco van der Harst (LL.M, PhD Candidate and researcher at the AISLC) |
2014-07-18 |
Chess and Doping: Two ships passing in the Night? By Salomeja Zaksaite, Postdoctoral researcher at Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania), and Woman International Chess Master (WIM) |
2014-07-16 |
The International Sports Law Digest – Issue I – January-June 2014 (by Frédérique Faut) |
2014-07-03 |
A Short Guide to the New FIFA Regulations on Working with Intermediaries |
2014-06-27 |
Cannibal's Advocate – In defence of Luis Suarez |
2014-06-23 |
Blurred Nationalities: The list of the “23” and the eligibility rules at the 2014 FIFA World Cup. A guest Post by Yann Hafner (Université de Neuchâtel) |
2014-06-18 |
The FIFA Business – Part 2 - Where is the money going? By Antoine Duval and Giandonato Marino |
2014-06-16 |
The EU State aid and Sport Saga - A legal guide to the bailout of Valencia CF |
2014-06-09 |
Gambling advertising regulations: pitfalls for sports sponsorship - By Ben van Rompuy |
2014-05-19 |
The Nine FFP Settlement Agreements: UEFA did not go the full nine yards |
2014-05-17 |
FFP the Day After : Five (more or less realistic) Scenarios |
2014-05-14 |
Dahmane v KRC Genk: Bosman 2.0 or Storm in a Teacup? |
2014-05-09 |
Get Up, Stand Up at the Olympics. A review of the IOC's policy towards political statements by Athletes. By Frédérique Faut |
2014-05-07 |
Final Report on the FIFA Governance Reform Project: The Past and Future of FIFA’s Good Governance Gap |
2014-05-05 |
Doping Paradize – How Jamaica became the Wild West of Doping |
2014-04-30 |
Cocaine, Doping and the Court of Arbitration for sport - “I don’t like the drugs, but the drugs like me”. By Antoine Duval |
2014-04-29 |
The French “betting right”: a legislative Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. By Ben Van Rompuy |
2014-04-25 |
Five Years UEFA Club Licensing Benchmarking Report – A Report on the Reports. By Frédérique Faut, Giandonato Marino and Oskar van Maren |
2014-04-22 |
The EU State aid and Sport Saga – Setting the scene |
2014-04-16 |
FFP for Dummies. All you need to know about UEFA’s Financial Fair Play Regulations. |
2014-04-14 |
Prof. Weatherill's lecture on : Three Strategies for defending 'Sporting Autonomy' |
2014-04-14 |
Tapping TV Money: Players' Union Scores A Goal In Brazil. By Giandonato Marino |
2014-04-11 |
International transfers of minors: The sword of Damocles over FC Barcelona’s head? by Giandonato Marino and Oskar van Maren |
2014-04-08 |
Welcome to the ASSER International Sports Law Blog! |
Date |
Title |
2024-09-19 |
The International Cricket Council and its human rights responsibilities to the Afghanistan women's cricket team - By Rishi Gulati |
2024-01-31 |
Sport is sailing rudderless into geopolitical storms - Russia and Israel responses show how absence of rules makes FIFA and the IOC tools of the global north - By Nick McGeehan |
2023-12-11 |
[Online Event] The aftermath of the Women's World Cup final: FIFA's and UEFA's responsibility in the Jenni Hermoso case |
2023-03-24 |
The State of Football Governance - Advocate General Szpunar Paves the Way for a Critical Assessment of the Status Quo - By Robby Houben (University of Antwerp) & Siniša Petrović (University of Zagreb) |
2022-12-09 |
New Event! Governing European football: What role for the European Union? - 16 December - Brussels |
2022-09-06 |
Can Formula 1 drive to protect human rights? A case study of the Bahrain GP - By Pedro José Mercado Jaén |
2022-04-01 |
Reactions of International Sport Organisations to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: An Overview - By Daniela Heerdt & Guido Battaglia |
2021-11-11 |
12th round of Caster Semenya’s legal fight: too close to call? - By Jeremy Abel |
2021-04-23 |
Never let a good fiasco go to waste: why and how the governance of European football should be reformed after the demise of the ‘SuperLeague’ - By Stephen Weatherill |
2021-03-29 |
(A)Political Games? Ubiquitous Nationalism and the IOC’s Hypocrisy |
2021-03-22 |
“Sport Sex” before the European Court of Human Rights - Caster Semenya v. Switzerland - By Michele Krech |
2021-01-14 |
New Event! Zoom In on International Skating Union v. European Commission - 20 January - 16.00-17.30 (CET) |
2020-12-10 |
Revisiting FIFA’s Training Compensation and Solidarity Mechanism - Part. 3: The Curious Non-Application of Training Compensation to Women’s Football – By Rhys Lenarduzzi |
2020-11-20 |
Pistorius revisited: A comment on the CAS award in Blake Leeper v. IAAF - By Marjolaine Viret |
2020-11-17 |
Revisiting FIFA’s Training Compensation and Solidarity Mechanism - Part. 2: The African Reality – By Rhys Lenarduzzi |
2020-11-13 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – October 2020 - By Rhys Lenarduzzi |
2020-10-23 |
Invalidity of forced arbitration clauses in organised sport…Germany strikes back! - By Björn Hessert |
2020-10-14 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – September - October 2020 - By Rhys Lenarduzzi |
2020-09-21 |
SFT rejects Semenya appeal: nothing changes - By Andy Brown |
2020-09-17 |
The Semenya Decision of the Swiss Federal Tribunal: Human Rights on the Bench - By Faraz Shahlaei |
2020-09-15 |
The SFT’s Semenya Decision under European human rights standards: Conflicting considerations and why a recourse could be successful at Strasbourg - By Kevin Gerenni |
2020-09-11 |
Selected procedural issues –and questions– arising out the Caster Semenya Judgment of the Swiss Federal Tribunal - By Despina Mavromati |
2020-09-10 |
Caster Semenya Case Exposes Design Flaws in International Sports Governance - By Roger Pielke Jr. |
2020-09-10 |
Caster Semenya at the SFT – in 10 points - By Jack Anderson |
2020-09-09 |
Chronicle of a Defeat Foretold: Dissecting the Swiss Federal Tribunal’s Semenya Decision - By Marjolaine Viret |
2020-09-04 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – June - August 2020 by Thomas Terraz |
2020-06-18 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – March-May 2020 by Thomas Terraz |
2020-03-24 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – February 2020 - By Thomas Terraz |
2020-02-23 |
How 2019 Will Shape the International Sports Law of the 2020s - By Thomas Terraz |
2020-02-23 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – January 2020 - By Thomas Terraz |
2020-01-22 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – November and December 2019- By Thomas Terraz |
2020-01-22 |
Balancing Athletes’ Interests and The Olympic Partner Programme: the Bundeskartellamt’s Rule 40 Decision - By Thomas Terraz |
2019-12-02 |
Is UCI the new ISU? Analysing Velon’s Competition Law Complaint to the European Commission - By Thomas Terraz |
2019-12-02 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – October 2019 by Thomas Terraz |
2019-11-10 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – August and September 2019 - By Thomas Terraz |
2019-09-19 |
Caster Semenya’s Legal Battle Against Gender Stereotypes: On Nature, Law and Identity - By Sofia Balzaretti (University of Fribourg) |
2019-08-08 |
Can a closed league in e-Sports survive EU competition law scrutiny? The case of LEC - By Thomas Terraz |
2019-04-30 |
What happens in Switzerland stays in Switzerland: The Striani Judgment of the Brussels Court of Appeals |
2019-02-19 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – January 2019 - By Tomáš Grell |
2018-12-11 |
The Kristoffersen ruling: the EFTA Court targets athlete endorsement deals - By Sven Demeulemeester and Niels Verborgh |
2018-10-14 |
The proportionality test under Art. 101 (1) TFEU and the legitimacy of UEFA Financial fair-play regulations: From the Meca Medina and Majcen ruling of the European Court of Justice to the Galatasaray and AC Milan awards of the Court of Arbitration for Sport – By Stefano Bastianon |
2018-10-10 |
The “Victory” of the Court of Arbitration for Sport at the European Court of Human Rights: The End of the Beginning for the CAS |
2018-09-10 |
Seraing vs. FIFA: Why the rumours of CAS’s death have been greatly exaggerated |
2018-03-08 |
Stepping Outside the New York Convention - Practical Lessons on the Indirect Enforcement of CAS-Awards in Football Matters - By Etienne Gard |
2018-02-21 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – January 2018 - By Tomáš Grell |
2018-02-09 |
Towards a Suitable Policy Framework for Cricket Betting in India - By Deeksha Malik |
2018-01-31 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – December 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2018-01-05 |
The ISU Commission's Decision and the Slippery Side of Eligibility Rules - By Stefano Bastianon (University of Bergamo) |
2017-12-18 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – November 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2017-12-08 |
Statement on the European Commission's ISU Decision by Ben Van Rompuy and Antoine Duval |
2017-12-05 |
A Good Governance Approach to Stadium Subsidies in North America - By Ryan Gauthier |
2017-11-27 |
Illegally obtained evidence in match-fixing cases: The Turkish perspective - By Oytun Azkanar |
2017-11-20 |
Report from the first ISLJ Annual International Sports Law Conference - 26-27 October at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut |
2017-11-07 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – October 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2017-10-25 |
Multi-Club Ownership in European Football – Part II: The Concept of Decisive Influence in the Red Bull Case – By Tomáš Grell |
2017-10-24 |
Multi-Club Ownership in European Football – Part I: General Introduction and the ENIC Saga – By Tomáš Grell |
2017-10-19 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – September 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2017-10-11 |
The limits to multiple representation by football intermediaries under FIFA rules and Swiss Law - By Josep F. Vandellos Alamilla |
2017-09-27 |
The Evolution of UEFA’s Financial Fair Play Rules – Part 2: The Legal Challenges. By Christopher Flanagan |
2017-09-21 |
The Evolution of UEFA’s Financial Fair Play Rules – Part 1: Background and EU Law. By Christopher Flanagan |
2017-09-15 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – July and August 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2017-09-04 |
FIFA's Human Rights Agenda: Is the Game Beautiful Again? – By Tomáš Grell |
2017-08-01 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – June 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2017-07-20 |
Mitigating Circumstances and Strict Liability of Clubs in Match-fixing: Are We Going in the Wrong Direction? An Analysis of the Novara and Pro Patria Cases - By Mario Vigna |
2017-06-26 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – May 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2017-05-17 |
What Pogba's transfer tells us about the (de)regulation of intermediaries in football. By Serhat Yilmaz & Antoine Duval |
2017-04-26 |
RFC Seraing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport: How FIFA’s TPO ban Survived (Again) EU Law Scrutiny |
2017-04-19 |
The Validity of Unilateral Extension Options in Football – Part 1: A European Legal Mess. By Saverio Spera |
2017-04-09 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – March 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2017-04-03 |
The legality of surety undertakings in relation to minor football players: the Lokilo case. By Adriaan Wijckmans |
2017-03-17 |
Kosovo at the Court of Arbitration for Sport – Constructing Statehood Through Sport? By Ryan Gauthier (Thompson Rivers University) |
2017-03-13 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – February 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2017-03-06 |
FIFA's Responsibility for Human Rights Abuses in Qatar – Part II: The Zurich Court's Ruling - By Tomáš Grell |
2017-02-28 |
FIFA's Responsibility for Human Rights Abuses in Qatar - Part I: The Claims Against FIFA - By Tomáš Grell |
2017-02-20 |
Doyen vs. Sporting II: The Bitter End of Sporting’s Fight at the Swiss Federal Supreme Court. By Shervine Nafissi |
2017-02-17 |
Doyen vs. Sporting I: Doyen’s Pyrrhic Victory at the CAS |
2017-02-08 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – January 2017. By Saverio Spera. |
2017-01-25 |
UEFA’s betting fraud detection system: How does the CAS regard this monitoring tool? By Emilio García. |
2017-01-20 |
The Diarra Ruling of the Tribunal of Charleroi: The New Pechstein, Bosman or Mutu? |
2017-01-18 |
The Russian Doping Scandal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport: The IPC’s Rio Ineligibility of Russian Paralympic Athletes |
2017-01-11 |
The Russian Doping Scandal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport: The IAAF’s Rio Ineligibility of Russian Athletes |
2017-01-06 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – November and December 2016. By Saverio Spera. |
2016-12-01 |
The EU State aid and sport saga: The Real Madrid Decision (part 2) |
2016-11-15 |
The EU State aid and sport saga: The Real Madrid Decision (part 1) |
2016-11-11 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – October 2016. By Kester Mekenkamp. |
2016-10-26 |
Taking the Blue Pill or the Red Pill: Should Athletes Really Check their Medications against the Prohibited List Personally? - A Comment by Marjolaine Viret (University of Neuchâtel ) |
2016-10-13 |
Case note: State aid Decision on the preferential corporate tax treatment of Real Madrid, Athletic Bilbao, Osasuna and FC Barcelona |
2016-10-10 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – September 2016. By Kester Mekenkamp |
2016-10-06 |
De- or Re-regulating the middlemen? The DFB’s regulation of intermediaries under EU law scrutiny at the OLG Frankfurt. By Antoine Duval and Kester Mekenkamp. |
2016-09-29 |
Case note: TAS 2016/A/4474 Michel Platini c. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. By Marine Montejo |
2016-09-20 |
The Russian Ballet at the CAS Ad Hoc Division in Rio - Act V: Saving the last (Russian) woman standing: The Klishina miracle |
2016-09-15 |
The Russian Ballet at the CAS Ad Hoc Division in Rio - Act IV: On Bringing a sport into disrepute |
2016-09-14 |
The Russian Ballet at the CAS Ad Hoc Division in Rio - Act III: On being sufficiently tested |
2016-09-13 |
The Russian Ballet at the CAS Ad Hoc Division in Rio - Act II: On being implicated |
2016-09-12 |
The Russian Ballet at the CAS Ad Hoc Division in Rio - Act I: Saved by the Osaka Déjà-Vu |
2016-09-09 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – August 2016. By Kester Mekenkamp. |
2016-09-07 |
Sports arbitration and EU Competition law: the Belgian competition authority enters the arena. By Marine Montejo |
2016-08-31 |
From Lord of the Rings to Lord of the Drinks – A legal take on the downfall of Yuri van Gelder at the Rio Olympics. By Guido Hahn (Erasmus University Rotterdam) |
2016-08-29 |
Bailing out your local football club: The Willem II and MVV State Aid decisions as blueprint for future rescue aid (Part 2) |
2016-08-24 |
Bailing out your local football club: The Willem II and MVV State Aid decisions as blueprint for future rescue aid (Part 1) |
2016-08-19 |
Why we should stop focusing on Caster Semenya by Marjolaine Viret (University of Neuchâtel) |
2016-08-11 |
Regulating the human body in sports: Lessons learned from the Dutee Chand case - by Dr Marjolaine Viret & Emily Wisnosky |
2016-08-03 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – July 2016 - By Marine Montejo |
2016-07-22 |
With or without them? Russia’s state doping system and the Olympic fate of Russian athletes. By Antoine Duval, Kester Mekenkamp and Oskar van Maren |
2016-07-12 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – June 2016. By Kester Mekenkamp |
2016-07-06 |
The EU State aid and sport saga: The Showdown |
2016-06-21 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – May 2016. By Marine Montejo |
2016-06-20 |
Operación Puerto Strikes Back! |
2016-06-15 |
FIBA/Euroleague: Basketball’s EU Competition Law Champions League- first leg in the Landgericht München. By Marine Montejo |
2016-06-13 |
The Müller case: Revisiting the compatibility of fixed term contracts in football with EU Law. By Kester Mekenkamp |
2016-06-08 |
The BGH’s Pechstein Decision: A Surrealist Ruling |
2016-06-06 |
The EU State aid and Sport Saga: Hungary revisited? (Part 2) |
2016-05-19 |
The Rise and Fall of FC Twente |
2016-05-18 |
The EU State aid and Sport Saga: Hungary’s tax benefit scheme revisited? (Part 1) |
2016-05-04 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – April 2016. By Marine Montejo |
2016-04-26 |
Guest Blog - Mixed Martial Arts (MMA): Legal Issues by Laura Donnellan |
2016-04-08 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – March 2016. By Marine Montejo |
2016-04-05 |
Doyen’s Crusade Against FIFA’s TPO Ban: The Ruling of the Appeal Court of Brussels |
2016-03-30 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – February 2016 |
2016-02-05 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – January 2016 |
2016-01-08 |
Goodbye 2015! The Highlights of our International Sports Law Year |
2015-12-09 |
Unpacking Doyen’s TPO Deals – Sporting Lisbon’s rebellion in the Rojo case. By Antoine Duval and Oskar van Maren |
2015-11-27 |
Unpacking Doyen’s TPO deals - Introduction |
2015-11-10 |
The 2006 World Cup Tax Evasion Affair in Germany: A short guide. By Gesa Kuebek |
2015-10-30 |
Blog Symposium: Ensuring proportionate sanctions under the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code. By Mike Morgan |
2015-10-29 |
Blog Symposium: Proof of intent (or lack thereof) under the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code. By Howard L. Jacobs |
2015-10-28 |
Blog Symposium: The “Athlete Patient” and the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code: Competing Under Medical Treatment. By Marjolaine Viret and Emily Wisnosky |
2015-10-26 |
Blog Symposium: The new WADA Code 2015 - Introduction |
2015-10-23 |
To pay or not to pay? That is the question. The case of O’Bannon v. NCAA and the struggle of student athletes in the US. By Zlatka Koleva |
2015-10-05 |
The European Commission’s ISU antitrust investigation explained. By Ben Van Rompuy |
2015-09-29 |
Interview with Wil van Megen (Legal Director of FIFPro) on FIFPro’s EU Competition Law complaint against the FIFA Transfer System |
2015-09-11 |
Why the CAS #LetDuteeRun: the Proportionality of the Regulation of Hyperandrogenism in Athletics by Piotr Drabik |
2015-09-04 |
Not comfortably satisfied? The upcoming Court of Arbitration for Sport case of the thirty-four current and former players of the Essendon football club. By James Kitching |
2015-08-25 |
EU Law is not enough: Why FIFA's TPO ban survived its first challenge before the Brussels Court |
2015-08-12 |
The New FIFA Intermediaries Regulations under EU Law Fire in Germany. By Tine Misic |
2015-07-23 |
Compatibility of fixed-term contracts in football with Directive 1999/70/EC. Part 2: The Heinz Müller case. By Piotr Drabik |
2015-07-20 |
Compatibility of Fixed-Term Contracts in Football with Directive 1999/70/EC. Part.1: The General Framework. By Piotr Drabik |
2015-07-14 |
UEFA’s FFP out in the open: The Dynamo Moscow Case |
2015-07-10 |
Policing the (in)dependence of National Federations through the prism of the FIFA Statutes. By Tine Misic |
2015-07-06 |
The Brussels Court judgment on Financial Fair Play: a futile attempt to pull off a Bosman. By Ben Van Rompuy |
2015-06-30 |
A Bridge Too Far? Bridge Transfers at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. By Antoine Duval and Luis Torres. |
2015-06-08 |
Financial Fair Play: Lessons from the 2014 and 2015 settlement practice of UEFA. By Luis Torres |
2015-03-27 |
The CAS and Mutu - Episode 4 - Interpreting the FIFA Transfer Regulations with a little help from EU Law |
2015-03-03 |
The aftermath of the Pechstein ruling: Can the Swiss Federal Tribunal save CAS arbitration? By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2015-02-24 |
SV Wilhelmshaven: a Rebel with a cause! Challenging the compatibility of FIFA’s training compensation system with EU law |
2015-02-20 |
In Egypt, Broadcasting Football is a Question of Sovereignty … for Now! By Tarek Badawy, Inji Fathalla, and Nadim Magdy |
2015-02-09 |
The 2014 Dortmund judgment: what potential for a follow-on class action? By Zygimantas Juska |
2015-02-06 |
The Pechstein ruling of the OLG München - A Rough Translation |
2015-02-03 |
From Veerpalu to Lalluka: ‘one step forward, two steps back’ for CAS in dealing with Human Growth Hormone tests (by Thalia Diathesopoulou) |
2015-01-26 |
State aid in Croatia and the Dinamo Zagreb case |
2015-01-19 |
The Pechstein ruling of the Oberlandesgericht München - Time for a new reform of CAS? |
2015-01-16 |
In blood we trust? The Kreuziger Biological Passport Case. By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2015-01-05 |
A Question of (dis)Proportion: The CAS Award in the Luis Suarez Biting Saga |
2014-12-12 |
The CAS Ad Hoc Division in 2014: Business As Usual? - Part. 2: The Selection Drama |
2014-12-08 |
Should the CAS ‘let Dutee run’? Gender policies in Sport under legal scrutiny. By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2014-12-01 |
The O’Bannon Case: The end of the US college sport’s amateurism model? By Zygimantas Juska |
2014-11-26 |
Image Rights in Professional Basketball (Part II): Lessons from the American College Athletes cases. By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2014-11-07 |
Image Rights in Professional Basketball (Part I): The ‘in-n-out rimshot’ of the Basketball Arbitral Tribunal to enforce players’ image rights contracts. By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2014-11-03 |
Sport and EU Competition Law: uncharted territories - (II) Mandatory player release systems with no compensation for clubs. By Ben Van Rompuy |
2014-10-22 |
Sports Politics before the CAS II: Where does the freedom of speech of a Karate Official ends? By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2014-10-15 |
Sports Politics before the CAS: Early signs of a ‘constitutional’ role for CAS? By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2014-10-03 |
The CAS jurisprudence on match-fixing in football: What can we learn from the Turkish cases? - Part 2: The procedural aspects. By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2014-09-29 |
The EU State aid and Sport Saga – A blockade to Florentino Perez’ latest “galactic” ambitions (part 2) |
2014-09-23 |
The CAS jurisprudence on match-fixing in football: What can we learn from the Turkish cases? - Part 1 - By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2014-09-12 |
Sport and EU Competition Law: uncharted territories - (I) The Swedish Bodybuilding case. By Ben Van Rompuy |
2014-09-10 |
The Legia Warszawa case: The ‘Draconian’ effect of the forfeiture sanction in the light of the proportionality principle. By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2014-09-05 |
The EU State aid and Sport Saga – A blockade to Florentino Perez’ latest “galactic” ambitions (part 1) |
2014-07-29 |
Right to Privacy 1:0 Whereabouts Requirement - A Case Note on a Recent Decision by the Spanish Audiencia Nacional |
2014-07-16 |
The International Sports Law Digest – Issue I – January-June 2014 (by Frédérique Faut) |
2014-06-16 |
The EU State aid and Sport Saga - A legal guide to the bailout of Valencia CF |
2014-06-06 |
Losing the UEFA Europa League on the Legal Turf: Parma FC’s bitter defeat by Giandonato Marino |
2014-05-28 |
The French collective agreement for professional Rugby tackled by Kelsen’s Pyramid - Guest Post by Patrick Millot |
2014-05-22 |
Dahmane v KRC Genk: A Rough Translation |
2014-05-14 |
Dahmane v KRC Genk: Bosman 2.0 or Storm in a Teacup? |
2014-05-05 |
Doping Paradize – How Jamaica became the Wild West of Doping |
2014-04-30 |
Cocaine, Doping and the Court of Arbitration for sport - “I don’t like the drugs, but the drugs like me”. By Antoine Duval |
2014-04-22 |
The EU State aid and Sport Saga – Setting the scene |
2014-04-14 |
Tapping TV Money: Players' Union Scores A Goal In Brazil. By Giandonato Marino |
2014-04-11 |
International transfers of minors: The sword of Damocles over FC Barcelona’s head? by Giandonato Marino and Oskar van Maren |
2014-04-09 |
Athletes = Workers! Spanish Supreme Court grants labour rights to athletes |
2014-04-08 |
Welcome to the ASSER International Sports Law Blog! |
Date |
Title |
2024-09-19 |
Women’s Football and the Fundamental Right to Occupational Health and Safety: FIFA’s Responsibility to Regulate Female Specific Health Issues - By Ella Limbach |
2024-01-31 |
Sport is sailing rudderless into geopolitical storms - Russia and Israel responses show how absence of rules makes FIFA and the IOC tools of the global north - By Nick McGeehan |
2023-03-24 |
The State of Football Governance - Advocate General Szpunar Paves the Way for a Critical Assessment of the Status Quo - By Robby Houben (University of Antwerp) & Siniša Petrović (University of Zagreb) |
2022-11-25 |
Time to focus on freedom of expression: Rainbows, armbands, and FIFA’s commitment to human rights - By Prof. Mark James (Manchester Metropolitan University) |
2022-04-01 |
Reactions of International Sport Organisations to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: An Overview - By Daniela Heerdt & Guido Battaglia |
2021-11-11 |
12th round of Caster Semenya’s legal fight: too close to call? - By Jeremy Abel |
2021-10-11 |
Investment in Football as a Means to a Particular End – Part 2: The Multiple Layers of Multi-Club Ownership Regulation in Football - By Rhys Lenarduzzi |
2021-06-29 |
WISLaw Blog Symposium - Rule 40 of the Olympic Charter: the wind of changes or a new commercial race - By Rusa Agafonova |
2021-06-29 |
WISLaw Blog Symposium - Stick to Sports: The Impact of Rule 50 on American Athletes at the Olympic Games - By Lindsay Brandon |
2021-06-29 |
WISLaw Blog Symposium - Legal and other issues in Japan arising from the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games due to COVID-19 - By Yuri Yagi |
2021-06-29 |
WISLaw Blog Symposium - Freedom of Expression in Article 10 of the ECHR and Rule 50 of the IOC Charter: Are these polar opposites? - By Nuray Ekşi |
2021-04-23 |
Never let a good fiasco go to waste: why and how the governance of European football should be reformed after the demise of the ‘SuperLeague’ - By Stephen Weatherill |
2021-03-29 |
(A)Political Games? Ubiquitous Nationalism and the IOC’s Hypocrisy |
2021-03-22 |
“Sport Sex” before the European Court of Human Rights - Caster Semenya v. Switzerland - By Michele Krech |
2021-02-08 |
Revisiting FIFA’s Training Compensation and Solidarity Mechanism - Part. 5: Rethinking Redistribution in Football - By Rhys Lenarduzzi |
2021-01-28 |
Revisiting FIFA’s Training Compensation and Solidarity Mechanism - Part. 4: The New FIFA Clearing House – An improvement to FIFA’s training compensation and solidarity mechanisms? - By Rhys Lenarduzzi |
2021-01-14 |
New Event! Zoom In on International Skating Union v. European Commission - 20 January - 16.00-17.30 (CET) |
2020-12-10 |
Revisiting FIFA’s Training Compensation and Solidarity Mechanism - Part. 3: The Curious Non-Application of Training Compensation to Women’s Football – By Rhys Lenarduzzi |
2020-11-30 |
New Event! Zoom In on Transnational Sports Law - Blake Leeper v. IAAF - 4 December at 4pm (CET) |
2020-11-20 |
Pistorius revisited: A comment on the CAS award in Blake Leeper v. IAAF - By Marjolaine Viret |
2020-11-17 |
Revisiting FIFA’s Training Compensation and Solidarity Mechanism - Part. 2: The African Reality – By Rhys Lenarduzzi |
2020-11-06 |
Revisiting FIFA’s Training Compensation and Solidarity Mechanism - Part.1: The historical, legal and political foundations - By Rhys Lenarduzzi |
2020-10-14 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – September - October 2020 - By Rhys Lenarduzzi |
2020-09-21 |
SFT rejects Semenya appeal: nothing changes - By Andy Brown |
2020-09-17 |
The Semenya Decision of the Swiss Federal Tribunal: Human Rights on the Bench - By Faraz Shahlaei |
2020-09-15 |
The SFT’s Semenya Decision under European human rights standards: Conflicting considerations and why a recourse could be successful at Strasbourg - By Kevin Gerenni |
2020-09-11 |
Selected procedural issues –and questions– arising out the Caster Semenya Judgment of the Swiss Federal Tribunal - By Despina Mavromati |
2020-09-10 |
Caster Semenya Case Exposes Design Flaws in International Sports Governance - By Roger Pielke Jr. |
2020-09-10 |
Caster Semenya at the SFT – in 10 points - By Jack Anderson |
2020-09-09 |
Chronicle of a Defeat Foretold: Dissecting the Swiss Federal Tribunal’s Semenya Decision - By Marjolaine Viret |
2020-09-04 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – June - August 2020 by Thomas Terraz |
2020-06-18 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – March-May 2020 by Thomas Terraz |
2020-06-10 |
Anti-Doping in Times of COVID-19: A Difficult Balancing Exercise for WADA - By Marjolaine Viret |
2020-05-26 |
(A)Political Games: A Critical History of Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter - By Thomas Terraz |
2020-03-24 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – February 2020 - By Thomas Terraz |
2020-02-23 |
How 2019 Will Shape the International Sports Law of the 2020s - By Thomas Terraz |
2020-02-23 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – January 2020 - By Thomas Terraz |
2020-01-22 |
Balancing Athletes’ Interests and The Olympic Partner Programme: the Bundeskartellamt’s Rule 40 Decision - By Thomas Terraz |
2019-12-02 |
Is UCI the new ISU? Analysing Velon’s Competition Law Complaint to the European Commission - By Thomas Terraz |
2019-12-02 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – October 2019 by Thomas Terraz |
2019-09-19 |
Caster Semenya’s Legal Battle Against Gender Stereotypes: On Nature, Law and Identity - By Sofia Balzaretti (University of Fribourg) |
2019-08-08 |
Can a closed league in e-Sports survive EU competition law scrutiny? The case of LEC - By Thomas Terraz |
2019-08-08 |
I’m A Loser Baby, So Let’s Kill Transparency – Recent Changes to the Olympic Games Host City Selection Process - By Ryan Gauthier (Thompson Rivers University) |
2019-05-17 |
Will the World Cup 2022 Expansion Mark the Beginning of the End of FIFA’s Human Rights Journey? - By Daniela Heerdt |
2019-05-07 |
How Data Protection Crystallises Key Legal Challenges in Anti-Doping - By Marjolaine Viret |
2019-04-30 |
What happens in Switzerland stays in Switzerland: The Striani Judgment of the Brussels Court of Appeals |
2018-12-19 |
A Reflection on the Second Report of FIFA’s Human Rights Advisory Board - By Daniela Heerdt (Tilburg University) |
2018-12-11 |
The Kristoffersen ruling: the EFTA Court targets athlete endorsement deals - By Sven Demeulemeester and Niels Verborgh |
2018-11-11 |
Season 2 of football leaks: A review of the first episodes |
2018-10-14 |
The proportionality test under Art. 101 (1) TFEU and the legitimacy of UEFA Financial fair-play regulations: From the Meca Medina and Majcen ruling of the European Court of Justice to the Galatasaray and AC Milan awards of the Court of Arbitration for Sport – By Stefano Bastianon |
2018-10-10 |
The “Victory” of the Court of Arbitration for Sport at the European Court of Human Rights: The End of the Beginning for the CAS |
2018-09-24 |
Football Intermediaries: Would a European centralized licensing system be a sustainable solution? - By Panagiotis Roumeliotis |
2018-09-10 |
Seraing vs. FIFA: Why the rumours of CAS’s death have been greatly exaggerated |
2018-06-27 |
Human Rights Protection and the FIFA World Cup: A Never-Ending Match? - By Daniela Heerdt |
2018-03-08 |
Stepping Outside the New York Convention - Practical Lessons on the Indirect Enforcement of CAS-Awards in Football Matters - By Etienne Gard |
2018-02-28 |
The International Partnership against Corruption in Sport (IPACS) and the quest for good governance: Of brave men and rotting fish - By Thomas Kruessmann |
2018-02-21 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – January 2018 - By Tomáš Grell |
2018-02-09 |
Towards a Suitable Policy Framework for Cricket Betting in India - By Deeksha Malik |
2018-01-31 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – December 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2018-01-05 |
The ISU Commission's Decision and the Slippery Side of Eligibility Rules - By Stefano Bastianon (University of Bergamo) |
2018-01-04 |
Human Rights as Selection Criteria in Bidding Regulations for Mega-Sporting Events – Part II: FIFA and Comparative Overview – By Tomáš Grell |
2017-12-20 |
Human Rights as Selection Criteria in Bidding Regulations for Mega-Sporting Events – Part I: IOC and UEFA – By Tomáš Grell |
2017-12-18 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – November 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2017-12-08 |
Statement on the European Commission's ISU Decision by Ben Van Rompuy and Antoine Duval |
2017-12-05 |
A Good Governance Approach to Stadium Subsidies in North America - By Ryan Gauthier |
2017-11-27 |
Illegally obtained evidence in match-fixing cases: The Turkish perspective - By Oytun Azkanar |
2017-10-25 |
Multi-Club Ownership in European Football – Part II: The Concept of Decisive Influence in the Red Bull Case – By Tomáš Grell |
2017-10-24 |
Multi-Club Ownership in European Football – Part I: General Introduction and the ENIC Saga – By Tomáš Grell |
2017-10-19 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – September 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2017-10-11 |
The limits to multiple representation by football intermediaries under FIFA rules and Swiss Law - By Josep F. Vandellos Alamilla |
2017-10-04 |
The Evolution of UEFA’s Financial Fair Play Rules – Part 3: Past reforms and uncertain future. By Christopher Flanagan |
2017-09-27 |
The Evolution of UEFA’s Financial Fair Play Rules – Part 2: The Legal Challenges. By Christopher Flanagan |
2017-09-21 |
The Evolution of UEFA’s Financial Fair Play Rules – Part 1: Background and EU Law. By Christopher Flanagan |
2017-09-15 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – July and August 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2017-09-04 |
FIFA's Human Rights Agenda: Is the Game Beautiful Again? – By Tomáš Grell |
2017-07-20 |
Mitigating Circumstances and Strict Liability of Clubs in Match-fixing: Are We Going in the Wrong Direction? An Analysis of the Novara and Pro Patria Cases - By Mario Vigna |
2017-07-07 |
Overdue payables in action: Reviewing two years of FIFA jurisprudence on the 12bis procedure – Part 2. By Frans M. de Weger and Frank John Vrolijk. |
2017-07-05 |
Overdue payables in action: Reviewing two years of FIFA jurisprudence on the 12bis procedure – Part 1. By Frans M. de Weger and Frank John Vrolijk. |
2017-06-26 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – May 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2017-06-13 |
The Olympic Games and Human Rights – Part II: Human Rights Obligations Added to the Host City Contract: Turning Point or Empty Promise? – By Tomáš Grell |
2017-06-09 |
The Olympic Games and Human Rights – Part I: Introduction to the Host City Contract – By Tomáš Grell |
2017-05-31 |
Exploring the Validity of Unilateral Extension Options in Football – Part 2: The view of the DRC and the CAS. By Saverio Spera |
2017-05-24 |
Nudging, not crushing, private orders - Private Ordering in Sports and the Role of States - By Branislav Hock |
2017-05-17 |
What Pogba's transfer tells us about the (de)regulation of intermediaries in football. By Serhat Yilmaz & Antoine Duval |
2017-05-10 |
The Reform of FIFA: Plus ça change, moins ça change? |
2017-04-26 |
RFC Seraing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport: How FIFA’s TPO ban Survived (Again) EU Law Scrutiny |
2017-04-19 |
The Validity of Unilateral Extension Options in Football – Part 1: A European Legal Mess. By Saverio Spera |
2017-04-09 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – March 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2017-04-03 |
The legality of surety undertakings in relation to minor football players: the Lokilo case. By Adriaan Wijckmans |
2017-03-17 |
Kosovo at the Court of Arbitration for Sport – Constructing Statehood Through Sport? By Ryan Gauthier (Thompson Rivers University) |
2017-03-13 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – February 2017. By Tomáš Grell |
2017-03-06 |
FIFA's Responsibility for Human Rights Abuses in Qatar – Part II: The Zurich Court's Ruling - By Tomáš Grell |
2017-02-28 |
FIFA's Responsibility for Human Rights Abuses in Qatar - Part I: The Claims Against FIFA - By Tomáš Grell |
2017-02-20 |
Doyen vs. Sporting II: The Bitter End of Sporting’s Fight at the Swiss Federal Supreme Court. By Shervine Nafissi |
2017-02-17 |
Doyen vs. Sporting I: Doyen’s Pyrrhic Victory at the CAS |
2017-02-10 |
UEFA’s Financial Fair Play Regulations and the Rise of Football’s 1% |
2017-02-08 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – January 2017. By Saverio Spera. |
2017-02-06 |
Introducing the new legal challenges of E-Sports. By N. Emre Bilginoglu |
2017-01-31 |
Time for Transparency at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. By Saverio Spera |
2017-01-25 |
UEFA’s betting fraud detection system: How does the CAS regard this monitoring tool? By Emilio García. |
2017-01-20 |
The Diarra Ruling of the Tribunal of Charleroi: The New Pechstein, Bosman or Mutu? |
2017-01-18 |
The Russian Doping Scandal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport: The IPC’s Rio Ineligibility of Russian Paralympic Athletes |
2017-01-11 |
The Russian Doping Scandal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport: The IAAF’s Rio Ineligibility of Russian Athletes |
2017-01-06 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – November and December 2016. By Saverio Spera. |
2017-01-03 |
FIFA’s provision on the protection of minors - Part 3: The compatibility of Article 19 with EU law. By Kester Mekenkamp. |
2016-12-14 |
FIFA’s provision on the protection of minors - Part 2: The 2009 reform and its aftermath. By Kester Mekenkamp. |
2016-12-12 |
FIFA’s provision on the protection of minors - Part 1: The Early Years. By Kester Mekenkamp. |
2016-12-07 |
The entitlement to Training Compensation of “previous” clubs under EU Competition Law. By Josep F. Vandellos Alamilla |
2016-12-01 |
The EU State aid and sport saga: The Real Madrid Decision (part 2) |
2016-11-22 |
Resolution of Disputes Arising From Football Contracts in Turkey. By N. Emre Bilginoglu |
2016-11-15 |
The EU State aid and sport saga: The Real Madrid Decision (part 1) |
2016-11-11 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – October 2016. By Kester Mekenkamp. |
2016-10-26 |
Taking the Blue Pill or the Red Pill: Should Athletes Really Check their Medications against the Prohibited List Personally? - A Comment by Marjolaine Viret (University of Neuchâtel ) |
2016-10-13 |
Case note: State aid Decision on the preferential corporate tax treatment of Real Madrid, Athletic Bilbao, Osasuna and FC Barcelona |
2016-10-10 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – September 2016. By Kester Mekenkamp |
2016-10-06 |
De- or Re-regulating the middlemen? The DFB’s regulation of intermediaries under EU law scrutiny at the OLG Frankfurt. By Antoine Duval and Kester Mekenkamp. |
2016-09-29 |
Case note: TAS 2016/A/4474 Michel Platini c. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. By Marine Montejo |
2016-09-20 |
The Russian Ballet at the CAS Ad Hoc Division in Rio - Act V: Saving the last (Russian) woman standing: The Klishina miracle |
2016-09-15 |
The Russian Ballet at the CAS Ad Hoc Division in Rio - Act IV: On Bringing a sport into disrepute |
2016-09-14 |
The Russian Ballet at the CAS Ad Hoc Division in Rio - Act III: On being sufficiently tested |
2016-09-13 |
The Russian Ballet at the CAS Ad Hoc Division in Rio - Act II: On being implicated |
2016-09-12 |
The Russian Ballet at the CAS Ad Hoc Division in Rio - Act I: Saved by the Osaka Déjà-Vu |
2016-09-09 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – August 2016. By Kester Mekenkamp. |
2016-09-07 |
Sports arbitration and EU Competition law: the Belgian competition authority enters the arena. By Marine Montejo |
2016-08-31 |
From Lord of the Rings to Lord of the Drinks – A legal take on the downfall of Yuri van Gelder at the Rio Olympics. By Guido Hahn (Erasmus University Rotterdam) |
2016-08-29 |
Bailing out your local football club: The Willem II and MVV State Aid decisions as blueprint for future rescue aid (Part 2) |
2016-08-24 |
Bailing out your local football club: The Willem II and MVV State Aid decisions as blueprint for future rescue aid (Part 1) |
2016-08-21 |
Fear and Loathing in Rio de Janeiro – Displacement and the Olympics by Ryan Gauthier (Thompson Rivers University) |
2016-08-19 |
Why we should stop focusing on Caster Semenya by Marjolaine Viret (University of Neuchâtel) |
2016-08-15 |
Sporting nationality and the Olympic Games: selected issues by Yann Hafner (University of Neuchâtel) |
2016-08-11 |
Regulating the human body in sports: Lessons learned from the Dutee Chand case - by Dr Marjolaine Viret & Emily Wisnosky |
2016-08-03 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – July 2016 - By Marine Montejo |
2016-07-25 |
Brexit and EU law: Beyond the Premier League (Part 2). By Marine Montejo |
2016-07-22 |
With or without them? Russia’s state doping system and the Olympic fate of Russian athletes. By Antoine Duval, Kester Mekenkamp and Oskar van Maren |
2016-07-21 |
Brexit and EU law: Beyond the Premier League (Part 1). By Marine Montejo |
2016-07-12 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – June 2016. By Kester Mekenkamp |
2016-07-06 |
The EU State aid and sport saga: The Showdown |
2016-06-21 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – May 2016. By Marine Montejo |
2016-06-20 |
Operación Puerto Strikes Back! |
2016-06-15 |
FIBA/Euroleague: Basketball’s EU Competition Law Champions League- first leg in the Landgericht München. By Marine Montejo |
2016-06-13 |
The Müller case: Revisiting the compatibility of fixed term contracts in football with EU Law. By Kester Mekenkamp |
2016-06-08 |
The BGH’s Pechstein Decision: A Surrealist Ruling |
2016-06-06 |
The EU State aid and Sport Saga: Hungary revisited? (Part 2) |
2016-05-19 |
The Rise and Fall of FC Twente |
2016-05-18 |
The EU State aid and Sport Saga: Hungary’s tax benefit scheme revisited? (Part 1) |
2016-05-04 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – April 2016. By Marine Montejo |
2016-04-29 |
The boundaries of the “premium sports rights” category and its competition law implications. By Marine Montejo |
2016-04-26 |
Guest Blog - Mixed Martial Arts (MMA): Legal Issues by Laura Donnellan |
2016-04-23 |
Guest Blog - The Role of Sport in the Recognition of Transgender and Intersex Rights by Conor Talbot |
2016-04-20 |
Unpacking Doyen’s TPO Deals: The Final Whistle |
2016-04-12 |
Unpacking Doyen’s TPO Deals: TPO and Spanish football, friends with(out) benefits? |
2016-04-08 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – March 2016. By Marine Montejo |
2016-04-05 |
Doyen’s Crusade Against FIFA’s TPO Ban: The Ruling of the Appeal Court of Brussels |
2016-03-30 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – February 2016 |
2016-03-24 |
Book Review: Despina Mavromati & Matthieu Reeb, The Code of the Court of Arbitration for Sport—Commentary, Cases, and Materials (Wolters Kluwer International 2015). By Professor Matthew Mitten |
2016-02-05 |
International and European Sports Law – Monthly Report – January 2016 |
2016-01-08 |
Goodbye 2015! The Highlights of our International Sports Law Year |
2015-12-18 |
Unpacking Doyen’s TPO Deals: In defence of the compatibility of FIFA’s TPO ban with EU law |
2015-12-09 |
Unpacking Doyen’s TPO Deals – Sporting Lisbon’s rebellion in the Rojo case. By Antoine Duval and Oskar van Maren |
2015-12-02 |
Unpacking Doyen’s TPO Deals: FC Twente's Game of Maltese Roulette. By Antoine Duval and Oskar van Maren |
2015-11-20 |
Book Review: Questioning the (in)dependence of the Court of Arbitration for Sport |
2015-11-17 |
The Court of Arbitration for Sport after Pechstein: Reform or Revolution? |
2015-11-13 |
Sports governance 20 years after Bosman: Back to the future… or not? By Borja García |
2015-11-10 |
The 2006 World Cup Tax Evasion Affair in Germany: A short guide. By Gesa Kuebek |
2015-10-30 |
Blog Symposium: Ensuring proportionate sanctions under the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code. By Mike Morgan |
2015-10-29 |
Blog Symposium: Proof of intent (or lack thereof) under the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code. By Howard L. Jacobs |
2015-10-28 |
Blog Symposium: The “Athlete Patient” and the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code: Competing Under Medical Treatment. By Marjolaine Viret and Emily Wisnosky |
2015-10-27 |
Blog Symposium: The impact of the revised World Anti-Doping Code on the work of National Anti-Doping Agencies. By Herman Ram |
2015-10-26 |
Blog Symposium: The new WADA Code 2015 - Introduction |
2015-10-23 |
To pay or not to pay? That is the question. The case of O’Bannon v. NCAA and the struggle of student athletes in the US. By Zlatka Koleva |
2015-10-05 |
The European Commission’s ISU antitrust investigation explained. By Ben Van Rompuy |
2015-09-29 |
Interview with Wil van Megen (Legal Director of FIFPro) on FIFPro’s EU Competition Law complaint against the FIFA Transfer System |
2015-09-29 |
The Scala reform proposals for FIFA: Old wine in new bottles? |
2015-09-11 |
Why the CAS #LetDuteeRun: the Proportionality of the Regulation of Hyperandrogenism in Athletics by Piotr Drabik |
2015-09-04 |
Not comfortably satisfied? The upcoming Court of Arbitration for Sport case of the thirty-four current and former players of the Essendon football club. By James Kitching |
2015-08-25 |
EU Law is not enough: Why FIFA's TPO ban survived its first challenge before the Brussels Court |
2015-08-12 |
The New FIFA Intermediaries Regulations under EU Law Fire in Germany. By Tine Misic |
2015-07-23 |
Compatibility of fixed-term contracts in football with Directive 1999/70/EC. Part 2: The Heinz Müller case. By Piotr Drabik |
2015-07-20 |
Compatibility of Fixed-Term Contracts in Football with Directive 1999/70/EC. Part.1: The General Framework. By Piotr Drabik |
2015-07-14 |
UEFA’s FFP out in the open: The Dynamo Moscow Case |
2015-07-10 |
Policing the (in)dependence of National Federations through the prism of the FIFA Statutes. By Tine Misic |
2015-07-06 |
The Brussels Court judgment on Financial Fair Play: a futile attempt to pull off a Bosman. By Ben Van Rompuy |
2015-06-30 |
A Bridge Too Far? Bridge Transfers at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. By Antoine Duval and Luis Torres. |
2015-06-23 |
20 Years After Bosman - The New Frontiers of EU Law and Sport - Special Issue of the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law |
2015-06-10 |
ASSER Exclusive! Interview with Charles “Chuck” Blazer by Piotr Drabik |
2015-06-08 |
Financial Fair Play: Lessons from the 2014 and 2015 settlement practice of UEFA. By Luis Torres |
2015-06-02 |
Book Review: Reforming FIFA, or Not |
2015-05-27 |
The Spanish TV Rights Distribution System after the Royal Decree: An Introduction. By Luis Torres |
2015-05-22 |
Sport and EU Competition Law: New developments and unfinished business. By Ben Van Rompuy |
2015-05-13 |
Is FIFA fixing the prices of intermediaries? An EU competition law analysis - By Georgi Antonov (ASSER Institute) |
2015-05-11 |
The Impact of the new FIFA Regulations for Intermediaries: A comparative analysis of Brazil, Spain and England. By Luis Torres |
2015-04-30 |
Blog Symposium: Why FIFA's TPO ban is justified. By Prof. Dr. Christian Duve |
2015-04-17 |
Blog Symposium: Third Party Investment from a UK Perspective. By Daniel Geey |
2015-04-16 |
Blog Symposium: The Impact of the TPO Ban on South American Football. By Ariel N. Reck |
2015-04-15 |
Blog Symposium: Third-party entitlement to shares of transfer fees: problems and solutions - By Dr. Raffaele Poli (Head of CIES Football Observatory) |
2015-04-14 |
Blog Symposium: FIFA must regulate TPO, not ban it. The point of view of La Liga. |
2015-04-10 |
Blog Symposium: FIFA’s TPO ban and its compatibility with EU competition law - Introduction - Antoine Duval & Oskar van Maren |
2015-03-27 |
The CAS and Mutu - Episode 4 - Interpreting the FIFA Transfer Regulations with a little help from EU Law |
2015-03-23 |
The UCI Report: The new dawn of professional cycling? |
2015-03-03 |
The aftermath of the Pechstein ruling: Can the Swiss Federal Tribunal save CAS arbitration? By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2015-02-27 |
‘The reform of football': Yes, but how? By Marco van der Harst |
2015-02-24 |
SV Wilhelmshaven: a Rebel with a cause! Challenging the compatibility of FIFA’s training compensation system with EU law |
2015-02-20 |
In Egypt, Broadcasting Football is a Question of Sovereignty … for Now! By Tarek Badawy, Inji Fathalla, and Nadim Magdy |
2015-02-17 |
Why the European Commission will not star in the Spanish TV rights Telenovela. By Ben Van Rompuy and Oskar van Maren |
2015-02-09 |
The 2014 Dortmund judgment: what potential for a follow-on class action? By Zygimantas Juska |
2015-02-03 |
From Veerpalu to Lalluka: ‘one step forward, two steps back’ for CAS in dealing with Human Growth Hormone tests (by Thalia Diathesopoulou) |
2015-01-29 |
State Aid and Sport: does anyone really care about rugby? By Beverley Williamson |
2015-01-26 |
State aid in Croatia and the Dinamo Zagreb case |
2015-01-21 |
“The Odds of Match Fixing – Facts & Figures on the integrity risk of certain sports bets”. By Ben Van Rompuy |
2015-01-19 |
The Pechstein ruling of the Oberlandesgericht München - Time for a new reform of CAS? |
2015-01-16 |
In blood we trust? The Kreuziger Biological Passport Case. By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2015-01-05 |
A Question of (dis)Proportion: The CAS Award in the Luis Suarez Biting Saga |
2014-12-18 |
Time to Cure FIFA’s Chronic Bad Governance Disease |
2014-12-12 |
The CAS Ad Hoc Division in 2014: Business As Usual? - Part. 2: The Selection Drama |
2014-12-08 |
Should the CAS ‘let Dutee run’? Gender policies in Sport under legal scrutiny. By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2014-12-01 |
The O’Bannon Case: The end of the US college sport’s amateurism model? By Zygimantas Juska |
2014-11-26 |
Image Rights in Professional Basketball (Part II): Lessons from the American College Athletes cases. By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2014-11-20 |
The Olympic Agenda 2020: The devil is in the implementation! |
2014-11-18 |
UEFA’s tax-free Euro 2016 in France: State aid or no State aid? |
2014-11-17 |
The New Olympic Host City Contract: Human Rights à la carte? by Ryan Gauthier, PhD Researcher (Erasmus University Rotterdam) |
2014-11-11 |
The UN and the IOC: Beautiful friendship or Liaison Dangereuse? |
2014-11-07 |
Image Rights in Professional Basketball (Part I): The ‘in-n-out rimshot’ of the Basketball Arbitral Tribunal to enforce players’ image rights contracts. By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2014-11-03 |
Sport and EU Competition Law: uncharted territories - (II) Mandatory player release systems with no compensation for clubs. By Ben Van Rompuy |
2014-10-22 |
Sports Politics before the CAS II: Where does the freedom of speech of a Karate Official ends? By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2014-10-15 |
The new “Arrangement” between the European Commission and UEFA: A political capitulation of the EU |
2014-10-15 |
Sports Politics before the CAS: Early signs of a ‘constitutional’ role for CAS? By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2014-10-06 |
Olympic Agenda 2020: To bid, or not to bid, that is the question! |
2014-10-03 |
The CAS jurisprudence on match-fixing in football: What can we learn from the Turkish cases? - Part 2: The procedural aspects. By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2014-09-29 |
The EU State aid and Sport Saga – A blockade to Florentino Perez’ latest “galactic” ambitions (part 2) |
2014-09-23 |
The CAS jurisprudence on match-fixing in football: What can we learn from the Turkish cases? - Part 1 - By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2014-09-12 |
Sport and EU Competition Law: uncharted territories - (I) The Swedish Bodybuilding case. By Ben Van Rompuy |
2014-09-10 |
The Legia Warszawa case: The ‘Draconian’ effect of the forfeiture sanction in the light of the proportionality principle. By Thalia Diathesopoulou |
2014-09-02 |
UEFA Financial Fair Play Regulations Put PSG and Manchester City on a Transfer Diet |
2014-07-29 |
Right to Privacy 1:0 Whereabouts Requirement - A Case Note on a Recent Decision by the Spanish Audiencia Nacional |
2014-07-24 |
The Rules of the Electoral Game for the FIFA 2015 Presidential Elections |
2014-07-22 |
Can (national or EU) public policy stop CAS awards? By Marco van der Harst (LL.M, PhD Candidate and researcher at the AISLC) |
2014-07-18 |
Chess and Doping: Two ships passing in the Night? By Salomeja Zaksaite, Postdoctoral researcher at Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania), and Woman International Chess Master (WIM) |
2014-07-03 |
A Short Guide to the New FIFA Regulations on Working with Intermediaries |
2014-06-27 |
Cannibal's Advocate – In defence of Luis Suarez |
2014-06-23 |
Blurred Nationalities: The list of the “23” and the eligibility rules at the 2014 FIFA World Cup. A guest Post by Yann Hafner (Université de Neuchâtel) |
2014-06-18 |
The FIFA Business – Part 2 - Where is the money going? By Antoine Duval and Giandonato Marino |
2014-06-16 |
The EU State aid and Sport Saga - A legal guide to the bailout of Valencia CF |
2014-06-09 |
Gambling advertising regulations: pitfalls for sports sponsorship - By Ben van Rompuy |
2014-06-06 |
Losing the UEFA Europa League on the Legal Turf: Parma FC’s bitter defeat by Giandonato Marino |
2014-05-28 |
The French collective agreement for professional Rugby tackled by Kelsen’s Pyramid - Guest Post by Patrick Millot |
2014-05-23 |
Quantifying the Court of Arbitration for Sport - By Antoine Duval & Giandonato Marino |
2014-05-21 |
UEFA may have won a battle, but it has not won the legal war over FFP |
2014-05-19 |
The Nine FFP Settlement Agreements: UEFA did not go the full nine yards |
2014-05-17 |
FFP the Day After : Five (more or less realistic) Scenarios |
2014-05-14 |
Dahmane v KRC Genk: Bosman 2.0 or Storm in a Teacup? |
2014-05-09 |
Get Up, Stand Up at the Olympics. A review of the IOC's policy towards political statements by Athletes. By Frédérique Faut |
2014-05-07 |
Final Report on the FIFA Governance Reform Project: The Past and Future of FIFA’s Good Governance Gap |
2014-05-05 |
Doping Paradize – How Jamaica became the Wild West of Doping |
2014-04-30 |
Cocaine, Doping and the Court of Arbitration for sport - “I don’t like the drugs, but the drugs like me”. By Antoine Duval |
2014-04-29 |
The French “betting right”: a legislative Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. By Ben Van Rompuy |
2014-04-25 |
Five Years UEFA Club Licensing Benchmarking Report – A Report on the Reports. By Frédérique Faut, Giandonato Marino and Oskar van Maren |
2014-04-22 |
The EU State aid and Sport Saga – Setting the scene |
2014-04-16 |
FFP for Dummies. All you need to know about UEFA’s Financial Fair Play Regulations. |
2014-04-14 |
Tapping TV Money: Players' Union Scores A Goal In Brazil. By Giandonato Marino |
2014-04-11 |
International transfers of minors: The sword of Damocles over FC Barcelona’s head? by Giandonato Marino and Oskar van Maren |
2014-04-09 |
Athletes = Workers! Spanish Supreme Court grants labour rights to athletes |
2014-04-08 |
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