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Trade Goals: Rules and referees (S5 – Ep7)

Nov 25, 2022

35:35

Without rules and referees there would be no game. Each football match is policed by a cwho has full authority to enforce the law of the game. In multilateral trade, we have plenty of rules but no all-powerful referee to supervise them. The ultimate control on trade disputes remains with the WTO members themselves. In this episode of the Trade Goals podcast, Michael Roberts and Antonia Carzaniga look at how football and trade disputes arise and how they are resolved.

We talked to:

Philippe Senderos, Sporting Director of Servette FC, Geneva

Sean Cottrell, Founder and CEO of the sports law knowledge hub LawInSport

Carol Etter, Swiss Attorney-At-Law specialised in sports law and board member of FC Basel

Clarisse Morgan, Director of the WTO Rules Division

Valerie Hughes, Senior Counsel with law firm Bennett Jones, former Director of the WTO Legal Affairs and Appellate Body Divisions

Show notes

A world-famous football referee with a degree in economics

Pierluigi Collina (Wikipedia)

Peruvian and Chilean Football Associations file appeals with Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)

Media release by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on 30 September 2022

CAS ruling in the matter of the player Byron Castillo