This article voices some of the criticisms and concerns that have been commonly raised about the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) within the sports law community. The aim of the article is to explain and explore those problems as well as to highlight some practical issues that they cause. Finally, some humble suggestions are made that could resolve those issues and help improve sports arbitration.

A Preliminary Remark for Best Understanding of this Article

This article has been written by three different generations of sports lawyers. A young and promising Hungarian-English lawyer, a legend of sports law with hundreds of hearings at the Court of Arbitration for Sport and a third lawyer, straddling the young and the old.

When writing an article about an institution like CAS, we tend to neglect the good and focus on criticism. So, our first caveat is to make it clear that, for the three writers of this article, CAS is an...

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