International and Comparative Sports Justice

person registered with a sports association. They all have rights and obligations

that are peculiar in the sense that they are proper to the context of sport, and

therefore are most appropriately granted or supervised by sports justice within an

autonomous system.

       In the name of their autonomy and the specificity of sport many

associations around the world developed their own justice bodies. Some of them

seem to be more effective than others but all share the same goal: to settle disputes,

to mediate and to guarantee the correct interpretation of sporting rules and regulations.

         This is not a simple task since the scope of sports justice is not always

easy to describe. In fact ordinary justice maintains its role in granting and supervising

certain rights and obligations that are not so different from those protected by

sports justice.