Tackling Doping Seriously - Reforming the World Anti-Doping System after the Russian Scandal

Abstract

This policy brief aims at taking stock of the Russian state doping scandal and at proposing a way forward for a reform of the World Anti-Doping System. It points out the dramatic shortcoming of the World Anti-Doping Agency with regard to the compliance of signatories with the World Anti-Doping Code and its urgent need for an institutional overhaul. To address this compliance lapse, the policy brief advances five key general directions and a number of concrete reform proposals.

Keywords: Doping, world anti-doping agency, Olympics, sports law, global law, lex sportiva, International Olympic Committee, harmonization, compliance

JEL Classification: K33, K42, K23, K32