Sports Law Forum
FIFA’s Human Rights Policy: A Critical Analysis
Following criticism of FIFA’s decision to award the hosting rights to the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar respectively, FIFA implemented a new human rights policy, obliging itself to recognise and implement several human rights treaties. However deficiencies in its approach to human rights still remain. In this forum article, Luke Karapetsas highlights these issues and suggests possible reform avenues.
When is Procedural Fairness Breached in the Sporting Context: Recent Decisions of Australia’s National Sports Tribunal
So far in 2023, two disputes brought before Australia’s National Sports Tribunal (‘NST’) have concerned appeals by athletes against governing sporting bodies on the grounds of procedural fairness.
In this Forum piece, Benjamin Batten explores the nature and function of the NST, and how in considering these two appeals, the respective Panel’s grounded their decisions using the common law principles concerning procedural fairness, as developed by the Australian courts, most prominently in the administrative law context.
Athletes, Afghanistan and Australia: How international law and sporting bodies are assisting evacuation of female athletes in Afghanistan
Juris Doctor student, Jordyn Grubisic, discusses the 2021 state of affairs in Afghanistan, and how female athletes are being evacuated from the country.
CAS Ad-Hoc Division at Tokyo 2020 Re-Affirms Strict Position Against Overturning Field of Play Decisions
First Year Juris Doctor Student, Benjamin Batten, explores the appeals against Field of Play decisions considered by the Court of Arbitration for Sport Ad-Hoc Division at Tokyo 2020.
The Russian Doping Saga: Have Legal Avenues Given Icarus New Wings?
Second year Juris Doctor student, Patrice Cialdella, explores the December 2020 ruling of the Court of Arbitration for Sport against the Russian Anti-Doping Agency.
Politics, Human Rights & Sports: An IOC Challenge
Recent Juris Doctor graduate, Sonja Santa Maria, addresses the increasing pressure on the IOC in maintaining its political neutrality in the face of growing human rights abuses and athlete activism.
Caster Semenya - What Is Fair & Meaningful Competition?
MSLA President Krystian Kmita discusses Caster Semenya’s recent appeal against regulations that require female athletes to suppress naturally high levels of testosterone.