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85 Tul. L. Rev. 269 (2010-2011)

handle is hein.journals/tulr85 and id is 273 raw text is: TULANE LAW REVIEW VOL. 85 DECEMBER2010 No. 2 Sports Law: Implications for the Development of International, Comparative, and National Law and Global Dispute Resolution Matthew J. Mitten* Hayden Opiet In this Article, we observe that legal regulation of national and iternational sports competition has become extremely complex and has entered a new ea, which provides fertile gmund for the cration and evolution ofbroaderlegaljunsprudence with potentially widespread influence and application. Our pnncipal ahn is to daw these developments to the attention of legal scholars and attorneys not necessarily familiar with sports law Specifically the evolving law ofsports is having a significant influence on the development ofinternational and national laws, is establishing a body of substantive legal doctrine rpe for analysis fiam a comparative law perspective, and has impoitant implications for global drspute resolution. For example, the global processes used to establish an international sports antidoping code and to resolve a broad range of Olympic and international sports dsputes (which is rapidly creating a body ofglobal private law) provide paradgms of international cooperation andgloballawmaking In addition, judicial resolution of sports-elated cases may develop jurisprudence with new applications and 0 2010 Matthew J. Mitten and Hayden Opie. * Professor of Law and Director, National Sports Law Institute and LL.M. in Sports Law Program for Foreign Lawyers, Marquette University Law School; Member, Court of Arbitration for Sport, Lausanne, Switzerland. t Director of Studies, Sports Law Program, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, Australia; Foundation President and Life Member of the Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Association. The authors thank Margareta Baddeley, John Barnes, Timothy Davis, Dr. Michelle Gallen, Rick Karcher, Robert Macdonald, Jim Naftiger, Michael M. O'Hear, Andrew Vaitiekunas, and Maureen Weston for their review of earlier drafts of the Article and insightful comments. The authors also are grateful to Nick Rieder, Marquette University Law School Class of 2010, for his research assistance. 269

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