Prof. Dr. Ulrich Haas
Founding Member CRSA
Professor of Civil Procedure and Civil Law, Insitute of Law,
University of Zurich
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Short Bio
Ulrich Haas is Professor of Civil Procedure and Civil Law at the University of Zurich. Ulrich's work and research focus on international civil procedure (including arbitration), company insolvency law, and sports law. He is the editor of numerous publications in these areas and has worked for many years as a consultant and arbitrator.
Ulrich has been Chairman or party-appointed arbitrator on more than 200 sports-related arbitral tribunals, including the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit eV in Cologne and the FIBA Basketball Arbitral Tribunal (BAT) in Geneva.
He also sits as a judge for some association tribunals such as the UCI Anti-Doping Tribunal in Aigle, and the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile’s (FIA) International Court of Appeal (ICA) for Formula One related disputes. He was also Arbitrator for the ad hoc Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Recently, he chaired the WADA Working Group on Governance Matters that proposed changes to the governance structure of WADA. The proposals were adopted by WADA’s Executive Committee and Foundation Board in November 2018.
Selected Publications
Haas, The Relationship between Association Tribunals and the Court of Arbitration for Sport, in: FIFA Legal Journal 1/2026, S. 82–102. Link
Haas; in ANZSLA Sports Law Journal 2025 vol. 18 No 1, (Hayden Opie Keynote Addresse). Link
Haas/Strub, Entwicklungen im Sportrecht/Le point sur le droit du sport, Berichtszeitraum November 2023 bis November 2024, SJZ 3/2025, S. 163–168. Link
Haas/Kahlert, Die Zukunft der Sportschiedsgerichtsbarkeit nach ISU und RFC Seraing, SpuRT 2025, S. 221–229. Link
Ulrich, H., & Heiner, K. (2025). Im Westen (scil Luxemburg) nichts Neues für die (Sport-) Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit-Zugleich eine Anmerkung zu EuGH, Urt. v. 1.8. 2025, EUGH Aktenzeichen C60023 C-600/23–RFC Seraing v. FIFA. SchiedsVZ: Zeitschrift für Schiedsverfahren, 2025, 157-163. Link
Haas/Strub, Entwicklungen im Sportrecht/Le point sur le droit du sport, Berichtszeitraum November 2022 bis November 2023, SJZ 3/2024, S. 124–131.
Haas/Strub, Entwicklungen im Sportrecht/Le point sur le droit du sport, Berichtszeitraum November 2021 bis Oktober 2022, SJZ 119/2023, S. 147–153.
Haas/Strub, Entwicklungen im Sportrecht/Le point sur le droit du sport, Berichtszeitraum November 2020 bis November 2021, SJZ 118/2022, S. 121–127.
Haas/Hessert, Sanctioning regime in match-fixing cases, jusletter 21. Juni 2021. Link
Haas, U. L. R. I. C. H., & Hessert, B. J. Ö. R. N. (2021). Sports Regulations on Human Rights Applicability and Self-Commitment. Le sport au carrefour des droits. Mélanges en l’honneur de Gérald Simon, Paris: Lexis-Nexis, 287-307.
Haas/Strub, Entwicklungen im Sportrecht/Le point sur le droit du sport, Berichtszeitraum November 2019 bis November 2020, SJZ 3/2021, S. 138–143.
Haas/Hessert, The legal regime applicable to disciplinary measures by sports associations – one size does not fit all, in: Peter Jung, Frédéric Krauskopf and Conradin Cramer (Hrsg.), Theorie und Praxis des Unternehmensrechts – Festschrift zu Ehren von Lukas Handschin, Zürich 2020, S. 279–291. Link
Haas/Strub, Entwicklungen im Sportrecht/Le point sur le droit du sport, Berichtszeitraum 2019, SJZ 3/2020, S. 89–94.
The US Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act, International Sports Law Review 2/2020, S. 15–19. Link
The Revision of The World Anti-Doping Code 2021, International Sports Law Review 3/2020, S. 25–37. Link
Haas/Strub, Entwicklungen im Sportrecht/Le point sur le droit du sport, Berichtszeitraum Dezember 2017 bis Dezember 2018, SJZ 3/2019, S. 76–81.
Noth/Haas, Kommentierung von R27–R36, R38–R46 des CAS Code of Sports-related Arbitration, in: Arroyo (Hrsg.), Arbitration in Switzerland – The Practitioner’s Guide, 2. Aufl. 2018
Haas/Trunz, Zulässigkeit polygraphischer Untersuchungen in Straf-, Zivil- und sportrechtlichen Schiedsverfahren, in: Kleiner/Baddeley/Arter (Hrsg.), Sportrecht, Bd. II, Bern 2018.
Standing of Appeal and Standing to be Sued, in: Bernasconi/Rigozzi (Hrsg.), International Sport Arbitration, 6th CAS & SAV/FSA Conference Lausanne 2016, Bern, 2018, S. 53–88.
