The Court of Arbitration for Sport and Its Jurisprudence: An Empirical Inquiry into Lex Sportiva

Description

This book takes a close look at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), challenging existing claims and answering previously unanswered questions, by considering all of its publicly available decisions, both in its entirety as a body of jurisprudence and on a case-by-case level. It also investigates the actors involved in adjudication before the CAS, both the parties that bring disputes before the CAS and the arbitrators that resolve them, and in so doing establish precedents that govern sports generally. While the book relies upon and includes more traditional legal theory and analysis, it combines this with an empirical analysis of a large portion of the CAS's decisions. Hereby it relies upon and relates to the theory of the development of a transnational legal order in sports, the lex sportiva. The publication is targeted at and will benefit those professionally working in or interested in the fields of sports law, arbitration law, transnational law, or empirical legal studies. Johan Lindholm is a Professor of Law at Umeå University in Sweden. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Cour Suprême du Sport Mondial (Johan Lindholm)....Pages 3-30 CAS: An Overview (Johan Lindholm)....Pages 31-42 Front Matter ....Pages 43-43 The Lay of the Land: The Topography of CAS Jurisprudence (Johan Lindholm)....Pages 45-83 CAS Decisions as Precedent (Johan Lindholm)....Pages 85-117 CAS’s Landmark Decisions (Johan Lindholm)....Pages 119-144 Structure of CAS’s Jurisprudence (Johan Lindholm)....Pages 145-183 CAS’s Normative Contribution (Johan Lindholm)....Pages 185-216 Front Matter ....Pages 217-217 CAS Arbitrators and Their Relationships (Johan Lindholm)....Pages 219-260 The Characteristics of CAS Arbitrators (Johan Lindholm)....Pages 261-285 CAS from the Litigants’ Perspective (Johan Lindholm)....Pages 287-312 Back Matter ....Pages 313-348