O REI Sport Law Publications
A working archive of student writing in international sports law.
Selected student articles and master's theses produced inside O REI. A working record of how the next generation of sports lawyers is thinking about the legal questions shaping the industry.
Selected LLM theses from each edition of the programme.
Master's Theses
13 entries
2025-2026 edition
7 entries
State Ownership, Concentrated Control and Competitive Integrity in Saudi Football: A Legal Analysis of Public Investment, Club Autonomy and De Facto Multi-Club Ownership in the Saudi Pro League.
Hassan Youssef
LLM 2025-2026 O REI Sports Law Graduate
12 June 2026
Beyond Consent: Reforming the Court of Arbitration for Sport for the European Legal Order
Guy Schlaefli
LLM 2025-2026 O REI Sports Law Graduate
12 June 2026
Temporary Rule, Structural Impact: Rethinking FIFA Normalisation Committees
Julius van der Steen
LLM 2025-2026 O REI Sports Law Graduate
12 June 2026
Sustainability as a Condition for Competition: The Legal Enforceability of ESG Criteria in UEFA and FIFA Club Licensing Frameworks
Andrés Arcia Miller
LLM 2025-2026 O REI Sports Law Graduate
12 June 2026
The Principle of Sporting Succession: From a Judicially Created Concept to a Codified Tool Against Football Clubs’ Avoidance of Mandatory Financial Responsibilities’’
Krisstian Terziev
LLM 2025-2026 O REI Sports Law Graduate
12 June 2026
From Redistribution Rule to Payment Infrastructure: FIFA Training Rewards after the FIFA Clearing House - EPP/TMS Data Governance, Evidentiary Burdens, and Procedural Fairness before the FIFA Football Tribunal and CAS
Leo Chicher
LLM 2025-2026 O REI Sports Law Graduate
12 June 2026
Evolution, Not Revolution: The Diarra Judgment and Contractual Stability in Global Football
Sebastian Pudzianowski
LLM 2025-2026 O REI Sports Law Graduate
12 June 2026
2024-2025 edition
6 entries
The Specificity of Sport in the Context of EU Competition Law
Brice Belhumeur
LLM 2024-2025 O REI Sports Law Graduate
12 June 2026
Player Mobility in Football: A Comparative Legal Study of European and U.S. Sports Models
Emely Saenz
LLM 2024-2025 O REI Sports Law Graduate
12 June 2026
Tennis Beyond the Court: Safeguarding Players through Legal and Structural Reforms in the ATP, WTA and ITF
Lou Brouleau
LLM 2024-2025 O REI Sports Law Graduate
12 June 2026
Enhancing the fight against Doping through Athlete integrity and Prevention
Author: Josue Emanuel Arroyo Angulo
LLM 2024-2025 O REI Sports Law Graduate
12 June 2026
Dispute Resolution in Football from the Perspective of Player Agents: Arbitration, Regulation, and the Applicability of Brazilian Law
Pedro Henrique Gomes Ramiz Wright
LLM 2024-2025 O REI Sports Law Graduate
12 June 2026
The Role of Waivers in the FIFA Clearing House System: Legal and Procedural Challenges in Training Compensation Disputes
Alexander Kirov
LLM 2024-2025 O REI Sports Law Graduate
12 June 2026
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