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:
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:
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.
All teams that enter can attend training from experienced arbitrators and advocates on:
All quarter final teams receive Plus Membership to LawInSport for 1 Year.
The 2nd placed team receive the above + £1,000 prize money + tickets to LawInSport's Annual Conference or Foobtall Law Conference.
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.
BPP University
Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA)
Chanakya National Law University
City Law School
Dublin City University
Edge Hill University
Erasmus University Rotterdam
University of Ljubljana
Ghent University
Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar
Hugh Wooding Law School
International University of Monaco
ISDE
Kenyatta University
King's College London
Leiden University
Moi University-Kenya
National law University Assam
Nelson Mandela University
O. P. Jindal Global University
Pepperdine School of Law
*Russian State University of Justice
SSBM Geneva
St. Petersburg State University
Stockholm university
The University of Melbourne
University of York
Universidad Europea
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Universitatea din Bucuresti
University of Cambridge
University of Dar Es Salaam
University of Delhi
University of International Business and Economics
University of Law
University of Lleida
University of Nigeria
University of Oxford
University of Rijeka
University of South Africa
University of the Witwatersrand
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law
University of Zurich
West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences
*The Russian State University of Justice qualified for the quarter-finals, however, due to the unprecedented prevailing circumstances relating to the invasion of Ukraine, we regret that the team was not able to progress to the quarter-finals.
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Faculty of Law in Ljubljana
O.P. Jindal Global University
BPP University
Hugh Wooding Law School
University of Cambridge
Kenyatta University
Leiden University
City University
* Note The Russian State University of Justice qualified for the quarter-finals, however, due to the unprecedented prevailing circumstances relating to the invasion of Ukraine, we regret that the team was not able to progress to the quarter-finals.
O.P. Jindal Global University
BPP University
Erasmus University/Leiden University
City University
BPP University
City University
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
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
Janie Soublière , Principal, Soubliere Sport Law
Steve Bainbridge, Partner, Squire Patton Boggs
Yoshihisa Hayakawa , Professor of Law, Rikkyo University & Partner, Uryu & Itoga
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:
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).
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