The professor of business and sports law at the University of Western Ontario, has previously arbitrated at both the Winter and Summer Olympics. He was appointed president of the Basketball Arbitral Tribunal on July 1.
The tribunal, established by the Geneva-based world basketball governing body FIBA in 2006, provides dispute resolution services for players, agents and clubs through arbitration.
McLaren, who says the number of cases the tribunal handles are expected to double over the next two years, praises it as one of the few dispute resolution systems in the world that handles almost all of its cases on a real-time basis online.
“It’s a model of how to provide access to justice and deliver fast and well-reasoned disputes,” said McLaren, who has been on faculty at UWO’s law school since 1972 and was Associate Dean from 1979-82. Read More
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