An Athlete’s Lawyer Perspective: The 2027 World Anti-Doping Code to be discussed at International Dispute Resolution in Sport 2025

The International Dispute Resolution in Sport Conference brings together leading practitioners, arbitrators, mediators, and professionals to share best practices, and to discuss and debate the latest developments in the growing and increasingly complex field of dispute resolution in sport.

This prestigious event not only brings together key figures from the worlds of law, business, and international sport but also serves as the host of the 2025 Grand Finals of the Sports Law Arbitration Moot (SLAM), taking place at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

We are hosting a session titled An Athlete’s Lawyer Perspective: The 2027 World Anti-Doping Code, with our expert speaker:

Matthew Graham, Head of UNI World Players Association

For further information including the Conference agenda, speakers, and details on how to book your place click here.

About SLAM

The SLAM is a not-for-profit, student moot competition, organised 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:

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

Students compete for the chance to win:

£1500 for the winners of the competition
£1000 for the runners-up of the competition

The competition welcomes students from all over the world and strives to be diverse in its student and judging base. Deserving students are provided with financial assistance for both the registration fee and the costs of appearing in the in-person rounds of the competition (if they advance), where there is demonstrated financial need, to ensure that financial barriers do not prevent students from receiving the exposure to sports law through the competition.

It is a non-profit initiative that brings together people from around the world to support and provide opportunities for students to connect, gain valuable experience that will help them in their career in law and sport. SLAM has seen:

230+ teams from 30+ countries entering the competition
100+ CAS Arbitrators & 100+ advocates, have volunteered their time and expertise to help judge the written submissions.

For more information on the competition, please visit here.