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Arbitration in Syria: Navigating Postwar Disputes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2021

Faris Elias Nasrallah
Faris Elias Nasrallah*
Affiliation:
Senior Arbitration Counsel, Crescent Petroleum, Sharjah
*
Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

The place of arbitration within the Syrian legal system has received scant academic and professional attention, and as such, remains largely unstudied. Shedding much-needed light on the nature of arbitration in Syria as a resilient form of ancient customary Arab alternative dispute resolution, this contribution appraises the salient features of the Syrian Arbitration Law 2008 and arbitration-related provisions within recent Syrian legislation. It aims to understand the position of arbitration in Syria between existing national and international law frameworks for dispute settlement and to assess the potential for establishing independent, transparent, and efficient tribunals to resolve disputes arising out of ongoing conflicts that have plagued the country since 2011. If arbitration proves to be a mechanism for ordering the peaceful settlement of postwar disputes within and concerning Syria, parties, practitioners, and stakeholders must employ perspectives that include and are capable of navigating Syria’s existing arbitration landscape.

Keywords

Syriaarbitrationinvestment lawpostwardispute settlement
Type
Research Article
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Asian Journal of Law and Society , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , June 2023 , pp. 219 - 240
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Asian Journal of Law and Society

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