Sports Investigations Law and the ECHR

This book focuses on the analysis of coercive measures that sports federations are permitted to use as part of their investigations to investigate rule violations.

Björn Hessert, Attorney-at-Law, is a Counsel to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Previously, Björn was an academic at University of Zurich, Switzerland, and a Visiting Professor at Tashkent State University of Law, Uzbekistan. His research and teaching interests focus on sports law and arbitration. Björn has published widely on issues relating to, inter alia, sports integrity and investigations, doping, match-fixing, sports and human rights, and sports arbitration. He is a member of the Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Association (ANZSLA) and the Swiss Sports Law Association (ASDS). This book has been awarded with the ASDS Publication Award 2022.

1. Introductory comments; 2. Analytical framework: The European Convention on Human Rights; 3. The gathering of intelligence and evidence in sports investigations; 4. The use of information obtained in internal sports investigations; 5. Exchange of information; 6. Conclusion