J.Tyrone Marcus is an Attorney-at-Law admitted to practice in Trinidad and Tobago in 1998 and in Jamaica and Barbados in 2008. He has been specializing in sports law since 2006, having completed in January 2010 a Masters Degree in Sports Law and Practice via distance learning with the De Montfort University in Leicester, England.

He has served in the past as a mediator for and legal consultant to the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee, a legal adviser to the 2009 Caribbean Games Local Organising Committee and an advocate for the Trinidad and Tobago Boxing Board of Control. He recently completed a 3-year contract as the Senior Legal Officer of the Ministry of Sport where he was part of the legal team that helped in that country’s staging of the 2010 FIFA Under 17 Women’s World Cup. He was recently elected to the Executive Board of the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee.

In November 2010, he was certified as a mediator by the Mediation Board of Trinidad and Tobago and in December of that year was appointed as a member of the Committee to Enable the Protection and Commercialization of Sports-Related Intellectual Property established by the Ministry of Legal Affairs.

He is currently a part-time lecturer at the University of the West Indies in Mediation Studies as well as Services Management in the Sports Sector. He served as a board member of the Caribbean Regional Anti-Doping Organization from 2010-2012 and is a current member of the NORCECA Volleyball Legal Commission. Mr. Marcus also currently sits as the Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee of the Trinidad and Tobago Professional Football League.

He has gained significant publication experience both nationally and internally, having published for the International Bar Association, the International Sports Law Journal, the Sport and the Law Journal and the Global Taxation and Sports Law Reports.He is also the author of the Caribbean Chapter in the recent legal textbook ‘Sports Betting: Law and Policy’ published by the T.M.C. Asser Press in the Netherlands.

His favourite themes in sports law are alternative dispute resolution, ambush marketing and anti-doping.