7th Sports Law Arbitration Moot (SLAM) - Team Registration

Register for the 7th Edition of the SLAM!

The international Sports Law Arbitration Moot (SLAM) is a world class competition, with the aim to promote greater knowledge of the values and rules of international sports arbitration, the go to dispute resolution mechanism in the sector.

SLAM provides students from around the world the opportunity to:

1. Develop and showcase their legal and advocacy skills before the world’s leading arbitrators and practitioners virtually and in-person;
2. Gain real world experience of international sports arbitration under the leading procedural rules;
3. Receive training on writing submissions and advocacy from some of the world’s leading advocates and arbitrators in world sport.

The competition is open to all current students. 

SLAM is organised by LawInSport, the world’s leading sports law knowledge hub and global community, and presented by Kellerhals Carrard.

The 7th Edition of the international Sports Law Arbitration Moot (SLAM) 2026 Grand Finals will take place in April 2026 at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, Lausanne, Switzerland. 

The final round and award ceremony are held at the end of a special sports law conference for competitors and leading lawyers, academics and executives from the sports world. 

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Registration & Eligibility

Teams consist of two team members per team. Registrations open on 18 September 2025 and close on 29 January 2026. 

Multiple teams from a single university can register for the competition.

The entry fee per team is £100.

Financial assistance - a  team can qualify for financial assistance to enter the competition please emailThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to see if you are eligible for financial support. The forms of financial assistance that will be provided are waiver of the costs of the entry fee (whether in part or in full) or a reasonable contribution towards the cost of travelling (limited to flights/trains and accommodation) to the in-person semi-finals and finals of the competition for teams that qualify for these stages limited to an amount of £500 per team. 

Student status - Students cannot enter if they have been licensed to practice law in any jurisdiction at the time of registration. Students must be registered as a student (full or part time) in an accredited institution of higher learning at the time of registration. 

SLAM 2026 Format 

The cases for each round will be based on real world scenarios and the registered teams will need to familiarise themselves with CAS case law and sport rules that may be relevant to their arguments. Teams will also be arguing these real-world disputes at the hallowed halls of the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland.

In the qualification round written submissions and oral advocacy will be evaluated by a selected panel of lawyers and CAS arbitrators. The successful teams will go through to regional rounds where the focus of the assessment will be solely on oral advocacy.

The winners of the regional rounds will progress to the quarter-finals of the competition, where on all rounds will be held in person at the offices of CAS in Lausanne, Switzerland. At each stage of the competition, the party for the team asked to advocate will be assigned randomly, which may mean acting for the same party more than once. 

In cooperation with CAS, the competition uses the prevailing Court of Arbitration for Sport’s (CAS/TAS) Code of Sports-related Arbitration (CAS Code). 

Schedule

SLAM Judges

All the judges have extensive experience as either arbitrators at the Court of Arbitration for Sport and other arbitral bodies, or they are experienced advocates in sports dispute resolution and at CAS.  The judges from the quarter-final rounds onwards are all experienced CAS arbitrators. 

We would like to thank our judges for their overwhelming support and for giving-up their time freely to help the next generation of sports lawyers realise their potential.

A list of all judges and their profiles from the 6th Edition are available here.