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Foreword: Developments in International Disability Sport Law
1. DEVELOPMENTS IN INTERNATIONAL
DISABILITY SPORT LAW
FOREWORD
On January 23, 2009, the Boston University International Law Journal
sponsored a symposium on international disability sport law, the first
symposium ever held on this topic by a student-edited law journal. This
symposium was based around the long term trend of integration and
inclusion between disability sport and mainstream sport—not just among
individual athletes on the playing field, but in sporting events, organiza-
tions, venues, and even the Olympics, and not just in competition but in
funding, training, coaching, and media coverage.
The symposium had two panels. The first panel, moderated by Boston
University Professor of Law Daniela Caruso, focused on athletics under
the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
(CRPD). The panel members included Harvard University Professor of
Law William Alford, BlueLaw International LLP Partner Janet Lord,
who has also worked as an adjunct professor at several law schools, Uni-
versity of Louisville Professor of Sports Administration Mary Hums and
Harvard Law School Research Fellow Fengming Cui. The second panel
focused on the Oscar Pistorius case in the Court of Arbitration in Sport
and the legal implications of technology in disability law. The panel was
moderated by Boston University Professor of Law Michael Harper. The
members of this panel were Massachusetts Institute of Technology Pro-
fessor of Media Arts and Sciences Hugh Herr, University of Louisville
Professor of Sport Administration Anita Moorman, and Women’s Sport
Foundation Public Policy Director Terri Lakowski.
These panels encapsulated developments in the field of international
disability sport law in the last year and included a number of domestic-
side developments under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). A
keynote address by Linda Mastandrea, the head of the Paralympic side of
Chicago’s 2016 Olympic and Paralympic bid, highlighted how the integra-
tion of disability athletes in able-bodied sport is occurring at a far higher
level than just that of the individual athlete. Stephen Spinetto, the disa-
bility commissioner of the City of Boston, also offered remarks.
SUNY Cortland Professor of Sport Management Ted Fay and Eli
Wolff, the manager of research and advocacy for the Northeastern Uni-
versity Center for Sport in Society, delivered the opening address of the
symposium, and they have authored an article based on those remarks on
the changes disability sport has encountered over the last several decades.
The integration of disability sport and mainstream sport is occurring on
much higher levels than just the individual athlete, changing the way
sports are played, how teams are organized, how games are planned, and
even how sporting venues and stadia are constructed. The CRPD went
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2. into effect the first week of May 2008. In just eight months, the Conven-
tion has become binding on 3.7 billion persons worldwide, nearly sixty
percent of the human population—remarkable progress for a human
rights treaty. The CRPD contains the first binding international law pro-
moting the integration of disabled athletes into mainstream sport, Article
30.5. The Convention’s athletic provisions are the culmination of a long
line of human rights protections in international sport descending from
the 1970s and the global debate over South African sport participation,
culminating in the revision of the Olympic Charter in 1982 recognizing
sport as a human right. An article by Janet Lord and Michael Ashley
Stein, the executive director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disa-
bility, will put the athletics provisions of the CRPD in the broader con-
text of disability rights and social justice and a human right to sport,
recreation, and cultural activities.
The ADA paints disability athletics with a broad brush, even though
not all athletes with disabilities are equally situated on the playing field.
Article 30.5 of the Convention sets up a more progressive disability sport
legal regime because it makes two legal distinctions that the ADA does
not make. The first legal distinction is between athletes with disabilities
who compete in mainstream sport and disability athletes who compete in
disability-specific sport since not all disability athletes can compete on an
equal basis against able-bodied athletes. The Convention differentiates
between Art. 30.5(a) athletes, who, like professional golfer Casey Martin,
compete in able-bodied sport, and Art. 30.5(b) athletes, who compete in
disability-specific sport like wheelchair basketball. Even between these
two categories, however, some legal gray area exists. Two weeks after the
Convention’s implementation, the International Court of Arbitration in
Sport handed down the Oscar Pistorius arbitration award, allowing a
sprinter using two artificial leg prostheses to compete for South Africa’s
Olympic team. Patricia J. Zettler, Standard Law School class of 2009, has
written an article on how international sporting regulations of Pistorius’s
Cheetah prostheses compare to regulations of mainstream sports technol-
ogies, using the new Fastskin swimsuits as an example. Dr. David McAr-
dle, senior lecturer and deputy head of the University of Stirling School
of Law, has written an article comparing the accessibility of sporting
venues under Article 30.5 of the CRPD with accessibility under Title III
of the ADA.
If the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit had applied this
Article 30.5 distinction instead of the ADA’s broad mandate, they may
have reached a different result this past year in the case of Scot Hol-
lonbeck versus the U.S. Olympic Committee. The U.S. Olympic Commit-
tee gave a different and less favorable benefit package to Paralympic
athletes than to Olympic athletes, and Hollonbeck and several other
Paralympic athletes sued on the theory that distinguishing on the basis of
Paralympic participation was a proxy for illegal disability discrimination.
The Tenth Circuit held that because of the integration of disability ath-
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3. letes in able-bodied sport, the category of “Paralympic” could no longer
be considered a proxy for “disabled” (or, at least, that the category of
“Olympic” was not a proxy for being able-bodied). Joshua Friedman,
attorney advisor for the U.S. Social Security Adminstration, and Gary
Norman, staff attorney at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will look at both
the positive and negative implications of this decision in their article.
Under the Convention’s parameters, the court might have realized that
some disabled athletes will never be able to compete in able-bodied
sport, and the instances of “integration” the court cited were exceptions
rather than the rule. Should President Barack Obama sign and the Sen-
ate ratify the CRPD, setting up the Art. 30.5(a)-(b) distinction would
reward disabled athletes competing in mainstream sport while protecting
disabled athletes competing in disability-specific sport.
The second distinction that Art. 30.5 establishes that the ADA does not
is the distinction between elite competitive sport and adolescent school
sport. As Article 30.5 recognizes, different motives exist for integrating
disabled athletes into mainstream adolescent school sport that do not
exist in an elite competitive context. Two world-class Paralympians, Mal-
lerie Badgett and Tatyana McFadden, attempted to change the status quo
in high school athletics. Both of them, as the only athletes in their wheel-
chair divisions, competed on a circular track alone, more a spectacle in an
exhibition than an athlete in competition. Both of the student-athletes
filed suit against their school districts to allow them to compete on the
track at the same time as able-bodied athletes, in the outer lane of the
track. The District of Maryland ruled in favor of McFadden, but the
Northern District of Alabama ruled against Badgett. The broad indis-
criminate brush of the ADA is being challenged from above and below.
The challenge from above comes from Article 30.5(d) of the CRPD,
which specifically separates school sport from elite competition. The
challenge is also coming from below: a groundbreaking Maryland law
went into effect in 2008 that sets up a separate, and more progressive,
legal regime for disability athletes specifically in the school context. Terri
Lakowski’s article makes a case for passing a nationwide equivalent of
the new Maryland law, a Title IX of sorts for athletes with disabilities.
This new law would recognize that integrating school sports helps to
socialize adolescent athletes, educate able-bodied teammates, and create
a more normal social environment for athletes with disabilities.
The symposium is sponsored by the N. Neal Pike Institute for Law and
Disability at Boston University School of Law, in partnership with the
Northeastern University Center for Sport in Society.
ANDREW NOVAK, SYMPOSIUM EDITOR
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