The 4th Global Sports Law Arbitration Moot (SLAM) - Registrations Open
LawInSport, the world’s leading sports law knowledge hub and global community, is pleased to announce that registrations are now open for the 4th edition of the international Sports Law Arbitration Moot (SLAM). The aim of this world class competition is to promote greater knowledge of the values and rules of international sports arbitration, the go to dispute resolution mechanism in the sector. The competition is open to all current students.
In the 3rd, we had 70+ teams from 20+ countries who were judged by 40+ expert sports lawyers and 30 CAS arbitrators from around the world. All oral rounds (i.e. from quarter final onwards) were judged solely by CAS arbitrators. For more details on the 3rd edition of SLAM, please see here.
SLAM will give 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 training on writing submissions and advocacy from some of the world’s leading advocates and arbitrators in world sport.
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.
The written submissions in the preliminary round 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 on oral advocacy. The four winners of the regional rounds will progress to the semi-finals of the competition. 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 will use the prevailing Court of Arbitration for Sport’s (CAS/TAS) Code of Sports-related Arbitration (CAS Code).
