97927 - LABORATORIO DI ARBITRATO NELLO SPORT

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide students with the main tools to understand the activity of sports arbitration, also through its relationship with ordinary justice and sports justice, as well as to learn technical and conceptual tools of an arbitration before the TAS/CAS of Lausanne and before the "Collegio di garanzia del Coni". Through the organization of a moot, the student will be able to experience the main obstacles that can be encountered during an arbitral proceeding and to know the strategies to overcome them.

Course contents

The laboratory, held in the second semester, aims to provide students with the essential notions of arbitration and justice in sport, through the analysis of the main sources of law and jurisprudence.

To this end, the following topic will be addressed: 

1) International sports arbitration: the TAS in Lausanne.

Readings/Bibliography

We recommend consulting the text, available in Open Teaching (by visiting buponline.com/openteaching):

ZUCCONI GALLI FONSECA E., RASIA C., Laboratorio di arbitrato nello sport. Schemi e materiali, Bononia University Press, 2021.

Teaching methods

The Workshop (8 hours), will be held on three separate days, in hybrid mode, as per the schedule below:

1) Monday, 3rd March 2025 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. (remotely).

The first lecture will be given by Prof. Stefano Bastianon and will be aimed at identifying the normative framework of arbitration in the field of sports law, in particular, that before the TAS/CAS in Lausanne.
Students will acquire skills and theoretical notions at this stage.

2) Wednesday, 5th March 2025 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.(remotely).

In the second class, which is of a practical nature, the students, with the support of collaborators to the chair, will be engaged in the study of a dispute in sports law, as well as in the drafting of court documents.
This phase aims to make students acquire ways and techniques of legal analysis and case law research, as well as drafting procedural documents through learning by doing and cooperative learning.

3) Monday, 10th March 2025 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. (in person) D-Ranzani, via Ranzani 14.

The last lecture, which will be held exclusively in presence, will be devoted to the final discussion of the case submitted to the students, who will argue their defensive arguments before an arbitration panel composed of Prof. Stefano Bastianon, Prof. Elena Zucconi Galli Fonseca and Prof. Carlo Rasia.

The theoretical-practical nature of the workshop requires the active participation of students, which will be attested by the collection of signatures, both during the lectures held in person and in those by remote connection.

Attendance is mandatory.

Assisting the course holders will be tutors Dr. Marta Naselli Flores, Dr. Giorgia Spallone, Dr. Sara Pini, Dr. Edoardo Piermattei, Dr. Francesco dal Maso, Dr. Martina Morfeo and Dr. Roberta Ezechia.

Assessment methods

The Workshop concludes with the final discussion of the practical case, given to students in the roles of plaintiff and defendant, before an arbitration panel.

There is no oral test to be taken.

The evaluation will be acquired exclusively through participation and actual attendance throughout the duration of the workshop (there is no oral examination of the course).

 

Teaching tools

The virtual course in E-learning mode is available to support the frontal teaching.

Office hours

See the website of Carlo Rasia