Interview with Despina Mavromati: "In just one year more than 200 members from almost 50 countries have come together in support of our movement!"

Women In Sports Law (WISLaw, www.wislaw.co) is an international association based in Lausanne uniting more than 200 women from 50 countries specializing in sports law. Exactly one year since the creation of WISLaw and after a series of smaller networking and educational events around the world, WISLaw held its 1^st Annual Conference & General Assembly at the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) Headquarters in Madrid, one day prior to the 7^th RFEF Congress on football law. Dr. Despina Mavromati, WISLaw Founder and Board Member, explains the success of the organization as well as the realization of the 1^st Annual Conference.

Could you tell us about your background, and how WISLaw started?

I am a sports lawyer and arbitrator based in Switzerland and I also teach sports arbitration at the University of Lausanne. Prior to this, I served as a Managing Counsel at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) for 9 years. Throughout my career, I had the chance to meet various highly accomplished women from different parts of the world, and I saw first-hand the lack of diversity in the sports law sector - not only in Switzerland but at an international level.

After a sports law conference in 2014, I met with my friends and colleagues from Zurich Melanie Schärer, a Swiss sports lawyer and former Group...

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