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Judging the Referee: How Judicial Standards of Review Can Improve Soccer’s Video Assistant Referee System
Eliana Fleischer
Eliana Fleischer is a J.D. Candidate at the University of Chicago Law School, Class of 2024.

She thanks Matthew Makowski, Cheridan Christnacht, Annie Kors, and the University of Chicago Law Review Online team. She also thanks her first readers, Julie Fleischer and Barry Fleischer.

The 2022 FIFA World Cup is in full swing, and while no one knows what the results of the games will be, we do know one thing: no matter who wins, there will be people mad at the referees.