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QUB Professor Jack Anderson appointed to top sporting body

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A PROFESSOR from Queen's University in Belfast as been appointed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland - the first person based in the north ever to be given a role at the body.

Limerick man Professor Jack Anderson, from Queen’s School of Law, will be among arbitrators who will hear disputes referred from all the main global sporting bodies, including FIFA, the IAAF and the International Olympic Committee.

Professor Anderson is recognised globally as an expert in the study of match-fixing in sport.

He is also the editor-in-chief of leading periodical, International Sports Law Journal, and secretary of the GAA's disputes resolution authority.