This one-hour CLE course offers a rare inside look at the process for fair, fast, and free resolution of legal disputes arising during the Olympic Games by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the world’s supreme court for sports. Led by Professor Matt Mitten—an internationally recognized sports law expert and three-time Olympic Games arbitrator as well as a University of Toledo College of Law alumnus—this session explores how CAS arbitrators fairly resolve disputes regarding athlete eligibility to participate, competition results, and doping issues under extreme time pressure while providing due process and establishing a consistent body of Olympic and international sports jurisprudence.
 

Presented by:
Matt Mitten, Professor of Law and Executive Director, National Sports Law Institute, Marquette University Law School

Matt is a Professor of Law and the Executive Director of the National Sports Law Institute at Marquette University Law School whose courses include Amateur Sports Law, Professional Sports Law, Sports Sponsorship Legal and Business Issues Workshop, Business Torts, Antitrust Law, and Torts. He served as the Law School’s Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from July 2002 to June 2004.

He is an arbitrator for the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland (serving on the ad hoc Division for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia and Anti-doping Division for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games and 2024 Paris Olympic Games), American Arbitration Association (sports, commercial, and consumer arbitration matters), Fair Sports, JAMS Sports Program, and New Era sports arbitration and mediation panels. He has served as the sole arbitrator, chair, or panel member in more than 70 sports cases as well as numerous commercial or consumer arbitrations. He is an emeritus member of the Sports Lawyers Association (SLA) Board of Directors (serving as SLA president from May 2015-May 2017) and the Advisory Board for the Sports & Society Initiative of The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences. He formerly chaired the American Association of Law Schools’ Section on Law and Sports (receiving its 2019 Award for making a substantial and significant contribution to sports law scholarship, teaching, and/or service) and the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports. He served on the inaugural Board of Directors of the Forum for the Scholarly Study of Intercollegiate Athletics at the invitation of former NCAA president Myles Brand.

Matt earned a B.A. in Economics from The Ohio State University and his JD, magna cum laude, from the University of Toledo College of Law. He is a member of the Order of the Coif and served as a Note & Comment Editor for the University of Toledo Law Review

1.0 CLE Hour

This program is being offered by the Columbus Bar Association in partnership with the CLE Committee of the Toledo Bar Association.   This CLE will be held on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link the day before the program.