Hubert Radke

SPORTS LAWYER

Sports Law Expert

Players’ Representative & Athletes’ Rights Advocate

EDUCATION

I am the graduate of Law and Administration Faculty at Nicolas Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland (1999-2000, 2001-2005), where I obtained Master of Laws degree with overall grade ‘A’.

I was a student-athlete under a scholarship at Loyola University Chicago (2000-2001), where I was named to the College of Arts and Sciences’ Dean’s List.

I successfully completed the Summer Programme on International Sports Law: The Expanding Area of Sports Law organised by the Asser Institute International Sports Law Centre, in Hague, Netherlands (2013) and the online course: Representing the Professional Athlete organised by Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, USA (2014).

I graduated from Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economia (ISDE) in Madrid, Spain, where I finished the prestigious Global Executive Master in International Sports Law program and obtained the LL.M. degree in international sports law (2017).

I was among one hundred persons from all around the world selected to participate in the renowned Sports Business Classroom course on NBA & NBPA Collective Bargaining Agreement and the business aspects of basketball, held by the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas (2022).

Currently, I am pursuing doctoral degree in sports law at Law and Administration Faculty at Nicolas Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.

6 BOOK CHAPTERS
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14 SPORTS LAW ARTICLES
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25 CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS APPEARANCES read more

15 MEDIA APPEARANCES
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

I have been a lawyer at my family law firm Radke Law, located in Wloclawek, Poland since 2014. I have been developing a sports law practise under #RadkeSportsLaw brand, focusing on representing athletes and coaches. In addition, I provide legal consultancy to sport clubs and organisations on certain legal issues. I advised on creation of the Basketball Players Labour Union in Poland. I draft and negotiate sport contracts, represent sports clients in disciplinary proceedings and arbitration. Among others, I acted on behalf of the athletes in front of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the Basketball Arbitral Tribunal (BAT) and the Disciplinary Panel of Polish Anti-Doping Agency (POLADA).

I have been the representative of the international basketball agency Limelight Hoops with its headquarters in Germany and Spain since 2014. I represent the agency and its clients in contract negotiations with basketball clubs and in case of disputes in arbitration proceedings. I am a basketball agent certified by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) and National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) operating by the NBA league.

I am a guest lecturer at Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economia (ISDE) in Madrid, Spain, where I teach an international sports law class on the basketball contracts. I also teach a sports law class at the “Sport Manager” programme held by Poznań University of Economics and Business in Poland. Earlier I lectured sports law at the postgraduate studies in sports management organised jointly by CIES, FIFA, Stadion Narodowy PL.2012+ and Koźmiński University in Warsaw, Poland.

Since 2024 I have been seating at the board of Polish Association of Sports Law in Poznań, Poland. I have also been a member of international sports law associations: International Association of Sports Law in Athens, Greece and of Sport & European Union.

In years 2015-2024 I was a pro bono member of Sports Council in Wloclawek, Poland – the sport advisory body of the town’s mayor.

I coauthored first modern sports law textbook in Poland. Furthermore, I authored and coauthored a number of law articles and gave the media interviews regarding the legal aspects of sport. I attended and spoke at sports law conferences and seminars on the national and international level.

Commentator

Basketball Analyst

I have been a basketball analyst of Canal+ television in Poland since 2007. As a color commentator I analysed over 500 NBA, Euroleague, FIBA Champions League and different European national leagues basketball games. I commentated NBA Finals ‘live’ from USA in years 2010-2015 and NBA All Star Weekend in 2016 and 2017. Furthermore, multiple times I presented the basketball analysis and explained the legal aspects of basketball in the #legalbasket series held at #BasketOffice magazine broadcasted at Canal+Sport channels. I also gave a number of interviews for different media in Poland and abroad regarding the game of basketball, as well as legal and business aspects of sport.

Basketball Player

13 GAMES FOR POLISH NATIONAL TEAM

414 GAMES IN BASKETBALL LEAGUES IN POLAND

28 GAMES IN NCAA BASKETBALL COMPETITION

17 GAMES IN EUROPEAN BASKETBALL CUPS COMPETITION

1992

I started regular basketball practices in the youth club of Junak Wloclawek under coach Janusz Maliszewski in 1992.

1994

Over the period of 1994-1998 I played for a youth club of Junak Włocławek under coach Grzegorz Karólewski.

1998

In 1998 I made a debut in senior basketball for Anwil Włocławek basketball club under coach Eugeniusz Kijewski and in the season 1998-1999 I was a member of Polish Basketball League (PLK) runner-up team.

1999

In the years 1999-2000, after starting the legal studies at Law and Administration Department of Nicolas Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, I represented AZS Toruń basketball club in PLK and junior team competition. Also I played for AZS UMK Toruń university team in the Academic Basketball League (LAK) competition, where I was a part of the winning squad.

2000

In the years of 2000-2001 I played NCAA basketball being a student-athlete of Loyola University Chicago under an athletic scholarship.

2001

After returning to Poland in 2001 I signed my first professional contract and played over the period of 2001-2004 for Notec Inowroclaw basketball club in PLK.

In the season 2001-2002 I played again in LAK competition, where I was a member of AZS UMK Toruń runner-up squad in 2002.

2002

In 2002 I was awarded as the Best Student-Athlete of Nicolas Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.

2004

In 2004 I was called to the All-Star Game of PLK and later that year also to the Polish National Basketball Team camp.

Since 2004 over the period of 6 basketball seasons I played at the top basketball level in Poland, consecutively for basketball clubs of Anwil Włocławek, Turów Zgorzelec, Energa Czarni Słupsk, Kotwica Kołobrzeg, Polonia Warsaw, and PBG Basket Poznań.

In seasons 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 I played with Anwil Włocławek basketball club in European basketball competition, consecutively in FIBA Europe Cup and ULEB Cup.

2005

In 2005 I was a member of Anwil Włocławek runner-up squad in PLK.

In summer 2005 I made my debut in Polish National Team and represented Poland in 13 games in international competitions.

2010

I spent half of the 2010-2011 season playing for MMKS Siden Toruń in Polish Basketball Federation (PZKosz) 2.Liga competitions being the best scorer of the league.

In the second half of 2010-2011 season and in the 2011-2012 season I played for Rosa Radom in PZKosz 1.Liga competitions.

2012

In seasons 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 I coninued my career in Rosa Radom, playing with this club in PLK competitions.

In 2012 I have been awarded as a Best Big Man of PZKosz 1.Liga competitions by sportowefakty.pl

2014

My basketball career ended with an injury that occurred during the PLK regular season game between Rosa Radom and Anwil Włocławek, at my "home arena" in Włocławek, in March 2014. Several times during my basketball career I was named as on of the Top-10 Polish Centers and Power Forwards by polskikosz.pl

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Contact

Hubert Radke
Wojska Polskiego 31
87-800 Wloclawek

Poland

hubert@radkesports.law

RESUME

Book Chapters

Coauthor of E. Krześniak, A. Szwarce (ed.) GREAT ENCYCLOPEADIA OF LAW. SPORTS LAW (Warsaw 2023)
Sport Transfer Market as an Object of Interest of Organised Crime - Outline of the Problem in M. Leciak (ed.) SPORT AND ORGANIED CRIME (Warsaw 2018)
Coauthor of M. Leciak (ed.) SPORTS LAW (Warsaw 2018)
Coauthor of M. Leciak (ed.) LEXICON OF SPORTS LAW (Warsaw 2017)
Strict liability as an universal principle of disciplinary proceedings in sport in M. Leciak (ed.) DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS IN SPORT – IN QUEST FOR AN IDEAL MODEL (Torun 2016)
Law of International Sport Organizations and Law of the State in D. BUNIKOWSKI, K. DOBRZENIECKI (eds.), LEGAL PLURALISM – TRADITIONS, TRANSFORMATIONS, CHALLENGES (Torun 2009)

Law Review Articles

Slam Dunk Justice: The BAT’s Game Changing Payment Order Procedure for Basketball Disputes article concerning the BAT at LAWINSPORT.COM (12 April 2024)
'Law-making’ Role of BAT [in:] H. Kahlert (ed.), THE BASKETBALL ARBITRAL TRIBUNAL (WIKINOTES) at JUSMUNDI.COM(2023)
A Review of the Basketball Arbitral Tribunal’s first COVID-19 Decision (Surmacz v. BM SLAM Stal) article concerning the BAT case at LAWINSPORT.COM (18 June 2020)
Sports Arbitration Ex Aequo et Bono: Basketball as a Groundbreaker at CAS BULLETIN 2019/02
Basketball Arbitral Tribunal (BAT) as a Llawmaker’: the Creation of Global Standards of Basketball Contracts through Consistent Arbitral Decision‐making at THE INTERNATIONAL SPORTS LAW JOURNAL 3-4 (2019)
Fair Trial Rights for Everyone, - article concerning the famous Pechstein Case at RZECZPOSPOLITA (6 November 2018)
Players' Rights to Compete - article concerning the ISU case at RZECZPOSPOLITA (9 February 2018)
Arbitration – a lesson for sport - article concerning the famous Pechstein Case at RZECZPOSPOLITA (16 June 2016)
Pacta Sunt Servanda in Basketball - article concerning Basketball Arbitral Tribunal at RZECZPOSPOLITA (29 December 2015)
Verdict that Shook the World of Sport - article concerning the famous Pechstein Case at RZECZPOSPOLITA (11 February 2015)
The Interaction of Criminal and Disciplinary Law in Doping-Related Cases at THE INTERNATIONAL SPORTS LAW JOURNAL 1-2 (2014) (with Salomeja Zaksaite)
NBA Lockout – Legal Aspects of Professional Sports in USA at SPORT WYCZYNOWY 1 (2012)
Fighting Sport Corruption – Polish Experience of a Global Dilemma at THE INTERNATIONAL SPORTS LAW JOURNAL 3-4 (2008)
Sport and Law – What Scope of Regulations? at SPORT WYCZYNOWY 7-9 (2007)

Sports Law Conferences and Seminars

Citizenship Based Discrimination in Sports - Voice of Practice at 23. ANNUAL SPORTS LAW CONFERENCE of POLISH ASSOCIATION OF SPORTS LAW held at Department of Law and Administration of Nicolas Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland (11 April 2024)
Sports Law from an Athletes / Players Perspective LAW IN SPORT GLOBAL SUMMIT: UNDERSTAND THE RULES OF THE GAME held in London, United Kingdom (9 October 2023)
Sports Arbitration from the Athlete's Perspective 47th ANNUAL SPORTS LAWYERS ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE held in Los Angeles, USA (12 May 2023)
Case of Shelton v. Polish Olympic Committee & Polish Fencing Federation - the Discrimination on the Basis of Expressed Opinions at SPORTS LAW CONFERENCE: LEGAL ASPECTS OF DISCRIMINATION IN SPORT held at Department of Law and Administration of Nicolas Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland (1 April 2022)
The Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Sport (discussion panel) at ANNUAL SPORTS LAW CONFERENCE held at Department of Law and Administration of University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, (23-24 April 2021)
“American Dream” on the European basketball floor? The Role of Players’ Labour Unions in American and European Model of Sport on the Example of Basketball at II CRACOVIAN SPORTS LAW CONFERENCE at Department of Law and Administration of Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland (30 September 2019)
Sports Arbitration Ex Aequo Et Bono: Basketball as a Groundbreaker at 24th INTERNATIONAL SPORTS LAW CONGRESS organized by International Association of Sports Law, Athens, Greece (2-3 November 2018)
Basketball Arbitral Tribunal (BAT) as a “Lawmaker”: The Creation of Global Standards of Basketball Contracts Through Consistent Arbitral Decision Making at ISLJ ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SPORTS LAW CONFERENCE held at Asser International Sports Law Centre, The Hague, Netherlands (25-26 October 2018)
Anti-Doping System: Between Public and Private Realm. Example of Poland at 13th ANNUAL SPORT & EU CONFERENCE held at Centre for Sports Law Research, Edge Hill University, England (3-4 July 2018)
Sport Arbitration Ex Aequo et Bono. Example of Basketball at ANNUAL SPORTS LAW CONFERENCE held at Department of Law and Administration of University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, (12-13 April 2018)
Legal Aspects of Fantasy Sports - How they do it in America? at LEGAL ASPECTS OF E-SPORT Conference held at Department of Law and Administration of Nicolas Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland (24 January 2018)
Important Problems of Sports Law in the Context of Medical Conditions of Athlete's Career at SPORT PSYCHIATRY Conference held in Lodz, Poland (24 February 2018)
Forced Arbitration in Sports in the light of Pechstein Case at ANNUAL SPORTS LAW CONFERENCE held at Department of Law and Administration of University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, (6-7 April 2017)
Sport Transfer Market and Organised Crime at SPORT AND ORGANISED CRIME CONFERENCE held at Department of Law and Administration of Nicolas Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland (16-17 March 2017)
Pechstein Case – Lessons for Sports Law Justice in Poland at ANNUAL SPORTS LAW CONFERENCE held at Department of Law and Administration of University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland (22 April 2016)
Basketball Arbitral Tribunal (BAT) – pacta sunt servanda in the world of basketball at ANNUAL SPORTS LAW COFERENCE held at Department of Law and Administration of University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, (7-8 April 2016)
American and European Model of Sport – continuing divergence or gradual convergence? at NICOLAS COPERNIUS UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF LAW AND ADMINISTRATION SPORTS LAW SOCIETY SEMINAR held at Department of Law and Administration of Nicolas Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland (21 January 2015)
Strict liability as an universal principle of disciplinary proceedings in sport at ANNUAL SPORTS LAW CONFERENCE held at Department of Law and Administration of University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland (24 April 2015)
Strict liability as an universal principle of disciplinary proceedings in sport at SPORTS LAW CONFERENCE: DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS IN SPORT – IN QUEST FOR AN IDEAL MODEL held at Department of Law and Administration of Nicolas Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland (16 April 2015)
Legal Aspects of Playing Professional Basketball in Europe at IU MAURER SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY SEMINAR held at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana, USA (6 April 2015)
Basic Differences in Legal Regulation of Sport on the Both Sides of Atlantic Ocean at SPORTS LAW SEMINAR held at Department of Law and Administration of University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland (19 May 2014)
Criminalization of Sport Abuses – Selected Problems of Using Criminal Law Means in the Area of Sport at ANUUAL SPORTS LAW CONFERENCE held at Department of Law and Administration of University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland (19 April 2013)
Polish System of Fighting Doping in Sports; Dispute Resolution System in Polish Sport; Contracts in Professional Sports – Different Perspectives (discussion panels) at POLISH CONGRESS OF SPORTS LAW AND PUBLIC EVENTS organized by Allerhand Institute, Warsaw, Poland (22 November 2012)
Fighting Doping in Sports in the Light of Polish Sports Statue at SPORTS LAW FORUM Conference organized by Polish Olympic Committee, Warsaw, Poland (16 October 2010)
Sports Fans and Athletes – between Olympia and Colosseum at SPORT’S FAN: INTRUDER OR AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT OF SPORT’S EVENT Conference held at University of Humanities and Economics, Włocławek, Poland (22 June 2007)

Selected Media Appearances

ECJ as a Guardian of Fair Competition in Sports. The End of Absolute Power in Sport - interview for RZECZPOSPOLITA (4 February 2024)
Another Dimension of Sport - interview for WYBORCZA.PL (14 August 2020)
A Polish Olympian Aimed to Join Team U.S.A. Things Got Ugly. - interview for THE NEW YORK TIMES (22 February 2020)
We Should Not Humiliate Semenya - interview for ONET.PL (8 May 2018)
The Necessity of the Protection of the Athletes' Rights - interview for PRAWO-SPORTOWE.PL (26 November 2017)
If Semenya is Not a Woman, Whom is She? - interview for ONET.PL (16 September 2016)
American Dream in European Court - interview for GAZETA WYBORCZA (19 April 2016)
Good Governance - Key for Polish Basketball - interview for PRZEGLAD SPORTOWY (8 July 2014)
Symptoms of Americanization of European Sports - interview for SPORTOWEFAKTY.PL (9 September 2013)
The One and Only...Advocate - article concerning my person at ECHO DNIA (8 February 2013)
Lawyer on the Basketball Floor - article concerning my person at DZIENNIK-GAZETA PRAWNA (30 January 2013)
Reneissance Basketball Player - article concerning my person at PRZEGLAD SPORTOWY (21 December 2012)
What is NBA Lockout about? – part 2, interview for GAZETA.TV (18 November 2011)
What is NBA Lockout about? – part 1, interview for GAZETA.TV (30 September 2011)
NBA Lockout – Sport League in the Courtroom? - interview for SPORT.PL (1 September 2011)

LEGAL EXPERTISE IN SPORT