Time to Go Public? The Need for Transparency at the Court of Arbitration for Sport

Has the time come for the Court of Arbitration for Sport to go public? This article argues that after the Pechstein decision of the European Court of Human Rights, CAS appeal arbitration must be understood as forced arbitration and therefore must fully co

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Time to Go Public? The Need for Transparency at the Court of Arbitration for Sport

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Antoine Duval

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Introduction.......................................................................................................................... The Context: The Public Backlash Against Confidentiality in Arbitration ....................... 2.1 Confidentiality as a Hallmark of Arbitration ............................................................. 2.2 Heeding the Call for Transparency in International Arbitration ............................... 2.2.1 The Slow Turn to Transparency in International Commercial Arbitration ...................................................................................................... 2.2.2 The Pressing Urge for Transparency in Investment Arbitration .................. 3 Acknowledging the Publicness of Forced CAS Arbitration: Taking Stock of the Pechstein Decision of the ECtHR ....................................................................................................... 3.1 CAS (Appeal) Arbitration as Forced Arbitration ...................................................... 3.2 CAS Arbitration and Compliance with Article 6(1) ECHR...................................... 4 Time to Go Public: Tackling the Transparency Deficits of the CAS................................ 4.1 ‘Hear, Hear’…the ECtHR: The Duty to Open CAS Hearings to the Public ........... 4.1.1 The ECtHR’s Jurisprudence on the Publicity of Hearings........................... 4.1.2 CAS’s Compliance with the ECtHR Jurisprudence on Publicity of Hearings..................................................................................................... 4.2 Publish or Perish: Time for the Systematic Publication of CAS Appeal Awards ........................................................................................................................ 4.2.1 The ECtHR’s Jurisprudence on the Publicity of Judgments ........................ 4.2.2 The Missing Third: The CAS’s Erratic and Incomplete Publication of Appeal Awards.......................................................................................... 4.3 Tackling the Opacity of the ICAS ............................................................................. 5 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................... References ..................................................................................................................................

A. Duval (&) T.M.C. Asser Instituut, The Hague, The Netherlands e-mail: [email protected] © T.M.C. ASSER PRESS and the authors 2019 Yearbook of International Sports Arbitration DOI 10.1007/15757_2019_29

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Abstract Has the time come for the Court of Arbitration for Sport to go public? This article argues that after the Pechstein