Editorial.

• Position: Editorial

On 10 November 2005, in the Olympic Museum in Lausanne (Switzerland), a scientific conference was held by the International Center for Sports Studies (CIES) of the University of Neuchatel on the topical issue of Nationality in Sports: Issues and Problems. Prof. Gerard-Rene de Groot, University of Maastricht (The Netherlands), an international expert on nationality law, was one of the speakers. He has elaborated his presentation for that occasion into the leading article of this issue of ISLJ. In his contribution, he recommends that new general sporting rules be adopted by the IFs to counter ad hoc naturalization procedures under public law for sporting purposes. On 4 April last at the Asser Institute in The Hague a seminar took place on this issue following the hotly debated question of the occasional naturalization of Ivory Coast's Salomon Kalou, a player of Feyenoord Rotterdam, in order that he might play for Holland in the Football World Cup in Germany this summer. Besides Kalou's lawyer, Prof. De Groot was again a speaker as was Dr Stefaan van den Bogaert, who is also with the University of Maastricht and author of Practical Regulation of the Mobility of Sportsmen in the EU Post Bosman (The Hague 2005). The event was chaired by Nicole Edelenbos, partner of Boer & Croon Management Executives and a former director of Feyenoord Rotterdam.

In December 2005, the anniversary publication The Court of Arbitration for Sport 1984-2004 appeared in print (T.M.C. Asser Press; pp. 577). It was produced by the ASSER International Sports Law Centre in cooperation with the University of Johannesburg, South Africa and Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. On 9 May the second joint international sports law seminar organized by the ASSER International Sports Law Centre in cooperation with the Hugo Sinzheimer Institute for Labour Law took place at the University of Amsterdam. The theme was CAS and...