Sports arbitration agreements under review: should they be considered invalid under English national law?
Sports arbitration agreements under review: should they be considered invalid under English national law?
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正在审查的体育仲裁协议：根据英国国家法律，它们是否应该被视为无效？
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10.1007/s40318-017-0110-y
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2017
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Tim Hülskötter
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作者：
Tim Hülskötter
仲裁协议是目前国际上争议较大的一个话题。特别是在德国的Pechstein案之后，体育仲裁协议的效力问题一直受到学术界的关注。然而，迄今为止，没有一家英国法院以运动员和体育联合会之间的结构性不平衡为由明确审查体育仲裁协议的有效性。本文采取了一个步骤，在这个方向上，并考虑是否英国法律的原则应该使体育仲裁协议无效。因此，本文分析了贸易限制、胁迫、不正当影响、不合理交易和公共政策等法律的理论。它的结论是，这些学说都没有使体育仲裁协议本身无效。然而，除了本文所分析的问题之外，英国法院还需要考虑特定仲裁庭的程序规则以及竞争法和《欧洲人权公约》第6条。
Arbitration agreements are currently an internationally much disputed topic. Especially the validity of sports arbitration agreements has been under review by academics in the aftermath of the Pechstein case in Germany. However, to date no English court has explicitly examined the validity of sports arbitration agreements on the grounds of the structural imbalance between athletes and sports federations. This article takes a step in that direction and considers whether principles of English law should render sports arbitration agreements invalid. It, therefore, analyses the legal doctrines of restraint of trade, duress, undue influence, unconscionable bargain and public policy. It concludes that none of these doctrines invalidate sports arbitration agreements per se. Nevertheless, other than the issues analysed in this article, English courts would also need to consider the particular arbitral tribunal’s procedural rules, as well as competition law and art. 6 ECHR.