Kluwer: Arbitration and Human Rights Following Semenya v Switzerland: The Commercial “Firewall” and EU law

Published on August 29, 2025

To what extent should national courts supervise the Court of Arbitration of Sport (“CAS”)? This question has exercised both the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) and the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) this summer. As athletics fans prepared to watch the Diamond League, the Grand Chamber (“GC”) of the ECtHR delivered its judgment in Semenya v Switzerland (“Semenya”).