The sports organization and its administration of justice in labor disputes: Ecuadorian case

Abstract

This document describes the application of justice in football and methods of dispute resolution: ordinary labor justice and the arbitration courts of sport. With this analysis, we seek to determine the legitimacy that sports justice has and the legal relationships that appear in this activity that translates into state responsibility, which generates uncertainty of competent instance for the resolution of conflicts of labor nature between the soccer player (employee) and the club (employer), all this, when we had identified where the recognition and the legitimacy to know these disputes of the Courts of Sports Arbitration lies, in coexistence with the jurisdiction exercised by the ordinary labor justice.

KEY WORDS: soccer, sport, arbitration, jurisdiction, controversies.

JEL CODE: L83, D63