Sports Lawyer in the Spotlight: Prof. Jack Anderson

For this edition of Sports Lawyer In The Spotlight, we interviewed Professor Jack Anderson who is a professor at Melbourne Law School. He lectures on criminal, torts and sports law and joined Melbourne Law School in July 2017.

Jack’s primary research interest is the relationship between sport and the law. He has published widely in sports law including monographs such as The Legality of Boxing (Routledge, 2007); Modern Sports Law (Hart, 2010); co-edited collections such as Landmark Cases in Sports Law (Asser, 2013) and EU Sports Law (Edward Elgar, 2018); as a contributing editor to Sports Law in Australia (4th ed, OUP, 2022); Sports Law: A Concise Introduction (Edward Elgar, 2023); and most recently (With B Hessert and C Ling) Elgar Encyclopedia of Sports Law (Edward Elgar, 2025).

He was Editor-in-Chief of the International Sports Law Journal from 2013 to 2016 and is currently an editorial board member of LawInSport. Jack contributes to various global media outlets on sports law matters such as the BBC, the Guardian, ABC, the New York Times and the Conversation. He is a columnist on sports law matters for the Irish Examiner, a national newspaper in Ireland.

Admitted to the Supreme Court of Victoria in 2022, Jack was Special Counsel (Integrity Regulation) at Racing Victoria from 2022 to 2024. An accredited workplace mediator and a Chartered Arbitrator, (CArb), Professor Anderson is Director of Sport Resolutions UK (a leading provider globally of sports dispute resolution services) and a Director of the Australian New Zealand Sports Law Association. He is a member of the International Tennis Federation’s Ethics Commission.

From 2016-2019, he was a member of the Court of Arbitration for Sport. He was the sole CAS arbitrator at the Commonwealth Games in 2018. He was an inaugural member of the International Hockey Federation’s Integrity Unity and the inaugural Ethics Chief for World Boxing. In 2019, he was asked by the Australian government to chair the advisory committee to prepare for the establishment of a National Sports Tribunal (NST). In 2020, he was appointed as a member of the National Sports Tribunal and in the same year, was appointed by the Victorian state government to the Board of Harness Racing Victoria.

Jack is an arbitrator for Football Australia, Rugby Australia, Football Victoria and Hockey Victoria. At the community level he is a Tribunal member for the Yarra Junior Football League and a volunteer at Yarra hockey club.

We did this interview with Jack in November 2025. We hope you enjoy the interview as much as we did.

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