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The Judiciarys Law Journal

The Applicable Law To The Substance Of Arbitral Disputes In International Commercial Arbitration In The Absence Of The Selection by the Parties To The Dispute

Document Type : Research/Original/Regular Article

Author
saeed johar
Judge of sirjan
10.22106/jlj.2025.2024533.5854
Abstract
In international commercial arbitration, the parties to the dispute are free to select the law that governs the substance of their dispute; provided that the chosen law is not contrary to the public order and peremptory norms. In case the parties have not chosen the law, which governs the nature of the dispute, the dissention arises. The absence of the selection of the applicable law governing the dispute slows down the arbitration process. In this case, the "arbitrator" must determine the law according to which the nature of the case is heard; due to the involvement of an international body in the dispute and the silence of the parties, the law governing the nature of the dispute is not clear from the beginning. Based on what is mentioned above, the "arbitrator" confronts several options which are discussed as the approaches in this research paper; meanwhile, the orientation of the countries and the arbitration organizations towards the approaches included the restrictions of such selection is examined. This article, while conducting a comparative study with the library method, relies on the assumption that the arbitrator has the same will as the parties in choosing the law that governs the nature of their dispute.
Keywords
Applicable law
Direct approach
Indirect approach
Governing law
Substantive law
Subjects
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The Judiciarys Law Journal
Volume 88, Issue 127
Winter 2025
Pages 59-92

  • Receive Date 08 March 2024
  • Revise Date 13 October 2024
  • Accept Date 25 February 2025
  • First Publish Date 25 February 2025
  • Publish Date 21 November 2024