This book takes a close look at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) challenging existing
claims and answering previously unanswered questions by considering all of its publicly
available decisions both in its entirety as a body of jurisprudence and on a case-by-case
level.It also investigates the actors involved in adjudication before the CAS both the parties
that bring disputes before the CAS and the arbitrators that resolve them and in so doing
establish precedents that govern sports generally.While the book relies upon and includes more
traditional legal theory and analysis it combines this with an empirical analysis of a large
portion of the CAS's decisions. Hereby it relies upon and relates to the theory of the
development of a transnational legal order in sports the lex sportiva.The publication is
targeted at and will benefit those professionally working in or interested in the fields of
sports law arbitration law transnational law or empirical legal studies.Johan Lindholm is a
Professor of Law at Umeå University in Sweden.
