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30
Jun
2022
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Jean-Baptiste RACINE
CAS
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International
Football Legal # 17

Sports Arbitration: Between Specificity and Normality


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The[1] arbitration institution is truly a plastic notion: there is not one arbitration but many arbitrations. While the institution always refers to using a third party to adjudicate a dispute based on an agreement between the parties, arbitration can adapt to different environments. Particularly used in the field of international business, it has spread far beyond investment disputes or even sports disputes. The sports arbitration that was the subject of this colloquium is, without a doubt, a real arbitration. Nevertheless, it oscillates between specificity and normality to use the title of our scientific event. The specificity comes from the environment in which it is inserted, namely sport. This is essentially a professional sport (i.e. high-level sport), both globalized and commercialized.

In this context, the use of arbitration is part of a precise logic: to centralize in the hands of a...

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Topics
  • CAS
Keywords
  • Arbitration
  • CAS proceedings
  • Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)
  • Applicable Law
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