In the Sports Law and Policy Centre’s “THE EUROPEAN SPORTS LAW AND POLICY BULLETIN, ISSUE 1-2013, INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE SPORTS JUSTICE, Andreas Zagklis traces in two chapters the development and evolution of the internal dispute resolution process of the international sports federations.
Andreas Zagklis (as of page 114) analyses the Fédération Internationale de Basketball’s (“FIBA”) internal and external dispute resolution mechanisms, highlighted by the innovative Basketball Arbitration Tribunal (“BAT”), that allow parties a fair, quick, and cost-efficient resolution to the various types of disputes that arise in basketball.
Andreas Zagklis and Achilleas Mavromatis (as of page 130) illustrate the steps taken by Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (“FIVB”) towards the restructuring of its dispute resolution system. The starting point is FIVB’s initial resistance to embrace the jurisdiction of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (“CAS”). Following the abolition of its own judicial body called the International Volleyball Tribunal, FIVB approved CAS as the last instance appeals body for all disputes arising within the FIVB family and revised the lower-instance, internal dispute resolution procedures. In this respect, the authors present the new role of CAS as the ultimate appeals body in the FIVB’s dispute resolution system, describe the three types of disputes that are heard by the FIVB according to a new categorisation system and present the newly constituted FIVB judicial bodies.
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