The CDES network
The Centre for the Law and Economics of Sport has been, for a long time, fully integrated institutionally in the sports sector, both with private and public stakeholders. As a result, CDES has developed many personal and institutional contacts in France and in Europe. These relationships have become especially formalised as part of two networks:
A very active, institutional network
With more than 700 qualified alumni, most of them working in the sports sector, CDES can rely on a particularly concentrated network which has been formalised as the Association of alumni graduated in the Law and Economics of Sport (ADDES: website available in French only).
CDES can also rely on the contacts it has established owing to the presence of its collaborators and employees on numerous sports commissions. Here are some examples:
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Disciplinary and legal commissions of French federations or professional leagues: sailing, cycling, rugby, gymnastics, climbing and mountaineering, tennis;
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Management control commission of French federations or leagues: football, rugby, basketball;
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Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne (with Jean-Pierre KARAQUILLO and François ALAPHILIPPE as arbitrators and Charles DUDOGNON and Éric BOURNAZEL as mediators).
Finally, the CDES has maintained partnerships for many years with the French Olympic Committee (CNOSF). The latter is a partner for several CDES training programmes, and for JURISPORT, our main publication.
VERY EXTENSIVE ACADEMIC NETWORKS
The Centre for the Law and Economics of Sport brings together researchers and university professors, so it can rely on the academic networks it has formalised in economics via the International Association of Sports Economists (IASE) and other more informal networks:
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The “International Association of Sports Economists” (IASE): this association was created in 1999 on the initiative of CDES in Limoges, and two collaborators of CDES are members of its board. IASE has more than 80 researchers specialised in the economics of sport from more than 30 countries.
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“DESport” is a seminar for researchers in the economics of sport, set up by Wladimir Andreff in 2006. Since CDES took over this seminar in 2010 and opened it to stakeholders in sport, DESport has developed more sports-related overtones. Organised every trimester in partnership with the French Olympic Committee (CNOSF), this seminar is considered to be the theatre for the presentation of academic work in the economics of sport, and the place to debate and exchange views with sports representatives (sport institutions, media, etc.).
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The “MESGO” training programme, which, since 2010, has gathered together:
- Birkbeck Sport Business Centre, Birkbeck College, University of London (UK);
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany);
- Institut Nacional d'Educació Física de Catalunya, University of Lleida (Spain).
- and Sciences Po, Paris (France).
