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

SLAM gives students, no matter of their location or financial circumstances, from around the world the opportunity to:

1. Develop and showcase their legal and advocacy skills before the world’s leading arbitrators and judges virtually and in-person;
2. Gain real world experience of international arbitration under the 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 uses the prevailing Court of Arbitration for Sport’s (CAS/TAS) Code of Sports-related Arbitration (CAS Code). The cases for each round is be based on real world scenarios and the registered teams 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 Arbitrators. The successful teams are put through to the Quarter Final stage. Thereafter the focus of the assessment will be on oral advocacy. At each stage of the competition, the party for which team is asked to advocate will be assigned randomly which may mean acting for the same party more than once.

All judges from the quarter-final stages are CAS Arbitrators.

The 2022 competition has seen:

• 70 teams enter from 20+ countries
• 40 Teams attend written submission and oral advocacy training session
• 30 CAS Arbitrators & 40 advocates, from 20 countries, have judges the written submissions. 23 CAS arbitrators have judged the oral round
• The 8 teams in quarter-finals came from 6 countries

The Semi-Finals and Grand Final will take place in person on the evenings of the 21 & 22 April 2022 at the Royal Society of Medicine, London (UK).

The Grand Final will be followed by a drinks reception.

Finals Judges

1. All teams that enter can attend training from experienced arbitrators and advocates on:

   1. Writting submission
   2. Oral advocacy

2. All quarter final teams receive Plus Membership to LawInSport for 1 Year.

3. The 2nd placed team receive the above + £1,000 prize money + tickets to LawInSport's Annual Conference or Foobtall Law Conference.

4. The winners of SLAM receive £1,500 prize money + tickets to LawInSport's Annual Conference or Foobtall Law Conference.

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.

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Quater-Finals Judges

Panel 1

Laura Abrahamson, Mediator, Arbitrator and Referee/Special Master, JAMS
Patrice Brunet, Founder and Managing Director of Patrice Brunet Avocats
Espen Auberg, Partner, Advokatfirmaet Nova DA

Panel 2

David Benck, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Hibbett Sports
Leanne O'Leary, Senior Lecturer in Law, Edge Hill University
Christopher L. Campbell, Senior Counsel, Tyson & Mendes and Olympic Medallist

Panel 3

Janie Soublière , Principal, Soubliere Sport Law
Steve Bainbridge, Partner, Squire Patton Boggs
Yoshihisa Hayakawa , Professor of Law, Rikkyo University & Partner, Uryu & Itoga

Panel 4

Emin ÖZKURT , Managing Partner, Ozkurt Law Office
Ricardo de Buen, Managing Partner, De Buen Law
Jan Räker, Senior General Counsel, VfB Stuttgart

The Rt. Hon. Lord Dyson
39 Essex Chambers - former Justice of the Supreme Court in 2010 and Master of the Rolls (President of the Court of Appeal in England and Wales, and Head of Civil Justice)

Raphaëlle Favre Schnyder
Attorney at law, Partner - Barandun & Alternate Judge at Appellate Court of Valais/Wallis

Mark Hovell
Head of Sport & Partner, Mills & Reeve

Klaus Reichert SC
Barrister (Senior Counsel), Brick Court Chambers

SLAM is organised by:

• Sean Cottrell, CEO & Co-Founder, LawInSport
• Manan Agrawal, Editor, LawInSport
• Blaz Tomazin Bolcar, founder of SportLaw and co-founder of SLAM
• Jeffrey Benz, Barristers, Meditator and Arbitrator, JAMS/Court of Abritrator for Sport
• Nina Goolamali QC, Barrister. 39 Essex Chambers

All organisers and judges give up their time freely and do not receive any financial remmuneration from their roles in the Sports Law Arbitration Moot (SLAM).