Con to the question "Should performance enhancing drugs (such as steroids) be accepted in sports?"
Reasoning:
"The objects of doping control are clear. The essence of a sporting contest is that it should be fairly conducted, with the competitor's success or failure being the result of natural talents: speed, skill, endurance, tactical awareness - honed, it may be, by instruction, training and body maintenance in its widest sense. The much used metaphor - a level playing field - derives from sport. The use of drugs violates all such notions of equality: the drug taker starts with an unfair advantage. Success becomes the product of the test tube, not the training track. The interests of innocent athletes need protection by punishment of the guilty."
Michael J. Beloff, "Drugs, Laws and Versapaks," Drugs and Doping In Sport, ed. John O'Leary, 2001
Experts
Individuals with MDs, JDs, PhDs, or other relevant advanced degrees, heads of professional sports leagues, and US Congress members with significant involvement in, or related to, performance enhancing drugs and sports. [Note: Experts definition varies by site]
Involvement and Affiliations:
Practicing lawyer, Blackstone Chambers (England)
President, British Association of Sport and Law
Ethics Commissioner, London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, 2004-present
Chairman, International Cricket Council's Code of Conduct Commission, 2002-present
Arbitrator, Olympic Games, 1996-2008
Former President, Trinity College, Oxford University, 1996-2006
Visiting Professor, University of Buckingham, 2006
Senior Ordinary Judge of the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey, 2005
Member, Court of Arbitration for Sport, 1996
Consultant Editor, Judicial Review Bulletin, Oxford Law, University of Oxford
Editor, Sweet & Maxwell International Sports Law Review
Deputy Judge, Queen's Bench Division, 1989-1996
First Chairman, Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association, 1986-1989
"Drugs, Laws and Versapaks," Drugs and Doping in Sports, ed. John O'Leary, 2001
Cowritten with T. Kerr, et. al, Sports Law, 1999
"The Sex Discrimination Act," Butterworths, 1976
"Halsbury's Laws," Time, 1975
The Plate Glass Universities, 1967
Cowritten with Jonathan Aitken, A Short Walk on the Campus, 1964
Other:
Named one of six barristers in The Times (UK) List of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in Great Britain, 2008
Treasurer, Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, 2008
Ranked as the United Kingdom's 'First Sports Lawyer To Call', Times Online, 2007
Named one of the 'Top Ten Currently in Law Practice', The Independent, 2001
Named one of the 'Top Ten Barristers of the Decade', Legal Business, 1999
Winner, Women's Defense League award, 1991
Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences
Honorary Vice-President, Oxford University Law Society
Recipient, Honorary doctorate, Farleigh Dickinson University
Has lectured on law in Beijing, Vancouver, Moscow, Berlin, Nuremberg, Monte Carlo, Salzburg, Hong Kong, Singapore, Dublin, Auckland, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Madras, Charlottesville, New Orleans, and throughout the United Kingdom
