Commentary on Sport Associations

As lawyers with a passion for sports and sports law, we provide an online commentary about legal issues relating to sports federations to a broad audience. The articles are available in German, English and French. The language diversity of the Swiss authors and audience is taken into account by the translation software.
The online platform "Sportverbandskommentar" is part of the sports law commentaries and focuses on questions of association law in sports law. It is aimed at athletes and sports associations, legal representatives as well as courts and arbitral tribunals.”

– Anne Mirjam Schneuwly/Yael Nadja Strub/Mirjam Koller Trunz, editors

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Die Herausgeberinnen

Anne Mirjam Schneuwly

Dr. iur. Anne Mirjam Schneuwly, attorney-at-law, E.M.B.L.-HSG, managing editor of the online sports law commentary, studied and obtained her PhD at the University of Fribourg. She worked as a law clerk at the Federal Administrative Tribunal and later also at the Federal Supreme Court. Since 2017, she has been working as a senior assistant on a post-doctoral research project in the field of foreign direct investment at the University of Zurich. In 2020, she co-founded the EXPADR platform and is active as an expert as well as a consultant on alternative dispute resolution proceedings.

Mirjam Koller Trunz

Dr. iur. Mirjam Koller Trunz, attorney-at-law, studied and obtained her PhD at the University of Zurich. After her studies she was as a research assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Haas. During that time, she worked as a law clerk at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and wrote her dissertation on "A Global Approach to Combating Match Fixing in Sport". After her admission to the bar, she worked as an attorney in the sports law department of Bär und Karrer before joining the sports law department of TIMES Attorneys. Since 2021, Mirjam Koller Trunz has served as a part-time Ethics and Disciplinary Inspector for UEFA and as a member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Gymnastics Ethics Foundation.

Yael Nadja Strub

Dr. iur. Yael Nadja Strub, attorney-at-law, studied and obtained her PhD at the University of Zurich. She works as an attorney, part-time judge at the Higher Court of Aargau, judge at the Swiss Olympic Disciplinary Chamber of Sport and is writing her habilitation thesis in the field of sports law. She also obtained a training and certificate for commercial horse keeping (according to Art. 31 para. 5 TschV) at the Swiss National Stud in Avenches.

Inhalt

List of authors

Foreword by the editors

Preface

General Part
1. The structure of sports associations and the relationship between athletes and the structure of associations

Corporate forms in sports organization law
Binding of the athletes to the rules of the sports federation
Structure of sports federations

2. Sports marketing

Sponsoring agreements
Sports marketing (TV and marketing rights)
Youth promotion

3. Sports ethics

Equality in sports
Antidoping (substantive law)
Precedural aspect on Antidoping in Switzerland
Match fixing

4. Dispute resolution

Arbitration (basics)
CAS (basics)
BAT (basics)

5. Other legal issues in sports

Data protection in sports
Intellectual Property Law in Sport
Taxation of sports associations

Special part