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
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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.
ASSER International Sports Law Series The Court of Arbitration for Sport and Its Jurisprudence An Empirical Inquiry into Lex Sportiva Johan Lindholm ASSER International Sports Law Series More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/8858 Johan Lindholm The Court of Arbitration for Sport and Its Jurisprudence An Empirical Inquiry into Lex Sportiva 123 Johan Lindholm Department of Law Umeå University Umeå, Sweden ISSN 1874-6926 ISSN 2215-003X (electronic) ASSER International Sports Law Series ISBN 978-94-6265-284-2 ISBN 978-94-6265-285-9 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-285-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018966862 Published by T.M.C. ASSER PRESS, The Hague, The Netherlands www.asserpress.nl Produced and distributed for T.M.C. ASSER PRESS by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg © T.M.C. ASSER PRESS and the author 2019 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. This T.M.C. ASSER PRESS imprint is published by the registered company Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE part of Springer Nature The registered company address is: Heidelberger Platz 3, 14197 Berlin, Germany Series Information Books in this series comprehensibly chart and analyse legal and policy developments in the emerging field of European and international sports law. The series uniquely features contributions from leading sports law scholars and is the most cited in its field. It is a valuable resource for practitioners, academics, sports officials, and anyone interested in or impacted by sports and the law. Series Editors: Prof. Dr. Ben Van Rompuy Leiden University, The Netherlands Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Dr. Antoine Duval T.M.C. Asser Instituut, The Netherlands Editorial Office ASSER International Sports Law Centre T.M.C. Asser Instituut P.O. Box 30461 2500 GL The Hague The Netherlands
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