Sports and Human Rights

Introduction.- 'But you're ok...' British South Asians and Regulatory Barriers to Participation in Sport.- Gendered Athletes in Sports: CEDAW's role in tackling heterosexist and racialized uniforms in sports.- #MeToo, Sport, and Women: Foul, Own Goal, or Touchdown? Online abuse of women in sport as a contemporary issue.- Hormonal eligibility criteria in women's professional sports under the ECHR: The case of Caster Semenya v. Switzerland.- Filipinos first? Exploring xenophobia and its legal remedies in Philippine amateur basketball.- Respecting the Right to Nationality in International Sport.- Athlete Activism at the Olympics: Challenging the legality of Rule 50 as a restriction on freedom of expression.- The incompatibility of banning political speech in sports with the right to freedom of expression under the European Convention on Human Rights.- Freedom of Expression of Athletes and Players: The Current and Potential Role of the European Court ofHuman Rights as a Watchdog in Sport.- The Court of Arbitration for Sport under Human Rights Scrutiny: The role of the Swiss Federal Tribunal and the European Court of Human Rights.- Conceptualizing the right to sport: Why should trivial participation in sport be regarded as a human right?

Véronique Boillet is an associate professor at the Law School of the University of Lausanne. She was previously a lawyer at the Lausanne's Bar (2011-2013) - practical experience of legal proceedings and network among lawyers and judges - and has just been elected to the Board of the Swiss Institution for Human Rights (2023-2027). As a scholar, she has in-depth knowledge of the European and Swiss constitutional system, which she has been teaching since 2017 and which she has analyzed in several contributions published in leading European and Swiss law journals. 
Sophie Weerts is an associate professor of public law at the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration, University of Lausanne. She holds a doctorate in law from the University of Louvain and has a background in law and ethics. Sophie was previously a visiting professor at the University of Geneva and the University of St-Louis-Brussels and a lecturer at the University of Neuchâtel and the University of Louvain (Uclouvain). She practiced law for several years at the Brussels bar and worked as an expert for the federal government. Her research lies at the crossroads of legal theory, constitutional law, and European law. She is currently focusing on issues relating to digital transformation and its impact on public law. In this context, she is particularly interested in the business and human rights perspective on the management of technological issues.




Andreas R. Ziegler is currently a Professor of International Law at the University of Lausanne and Director of its LLM Program in International Business Law. He holds a conjoint professorship at the Law School of the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) as well as visiting appointments at the Universities of St. Gallen and of the Saarland (Saarbrücken) as well as ETH Zurich and the Geneva Academy. Previously he was a civil servant working for several Swiss Ministries (Foreign Affairs, Trade) and international