Lecture at Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Sport Management and Technology Programme, Lausanne.
A lecture was given to about 30 students from around the world on various legal issues related to anti-doping.
A lecture was given to about 30 students from around the world on various legal issues related to anti-doping.
Volker Hesse run a two-day workshop within a program to educate future mediators at the BFI in Salzburg, Austria.
Volker Hesse attended and successfully completed a seminar at the Católica Global School of Law (Lisbon) on “Sports Corruption and Integrity” within its Executive Education Program. Various important topics were covered in the seminar such as match fixing, doping, safeguarding and harassment.
Lecture given to around 25 international students on selected legal topics in anti-doping as part of an sports management master. Many of the students are (former) athletes and futur managers in sport organisations around the world. It was a pleasure to work with them.
Lecture given to around 30 international students on selected legal topics in anti-doping. A focus was given this year on the new version of the World Anti-Doping Code which entered into force on 1 January 2021.
Due to the current situation with the “Coronavirus” outbreak, the lecture was hold online and went well thanks to students who were very disciplined and made the best out of the situation.
Sports lawyers met in Zurich to an event organized by WISLaw and ASDS to discuss a topic which is quite untypical for lawyers – Blockchain! Thanks to the interesting presentations, participants got an idea on how and where Blockchain could be used in the sports wold.
Volker Hesse was invited by the AISTS to hold a lecture on legal issues in doping at the Master of Advanced Studies in Sport Administration and Technology. Around 40 students from various countries followed that lecture. It was great to meet this dedicated and talented group of future sports managers.
On 8 and 9 March 2019 the International Association of Lawyers organized a two day seminar in Zurich on the topic of mediation. Lawyers and mediators from around the globe gathered in order to discuss new developments in this field like the “Singapore Convention” which regulates the enforecement of settlement agreemenst resulting from mediation in commercial disputes.
Kings Chambers organized a seminar on selected sports law issues in Lausanne. Topics such as CAS Arbitration, implementation of CAS Awards and case law in football cases were discussed. High profile participants from the Sports law sector from Switzerland and the United Kingdom attended this seminar which was a wonderful opportunity to get important updates on the topics and to meet and greet colleagues.